57-20 Catalpa Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1909

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1909
German-born mason Henry Schlachter builds 57-20 Catalpa Avenue
Henry Schlachter, who developed this building in 1909, was born in Germany and arrived in the United States in 1880, starting out as a mason. He went on to become a leading builder in Bushwick and Ridgewood, putting up both two-family houses and bigger six-family flats. He also helped build the St. Matthias rectory and later developed single-family houses north of Jamaica Village.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
57-20 Catalpa Avenue keeps a cast-iron door hood and an entrance under its stoop
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The pale yellow brick tenement, one of three Louis Berger & Co. designed for Henry Schlachter under one 1909 permit, has a bracketed cast-iron hood over its central entry and paired wood-and-glass doors with a transom. A second entrance sits beneath the stoop. Later alterations include vinyl windows, sliding basement windows, a non-historic stoop and railing, and a satellite dish on the roof.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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