57-24 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
Louis Berger & Co., architects of thousands of Ridgewood buildings, design 57-24 Catalpa Avenue
Henry Schlachter's 1909 row on Catalpa Avenue was designed by Louis Berger & Co., the architect of record for more than 5,000 Ridgewood and Bushwick buildings from 1895 to 1930. Berger, born in Rheinpfalz, Germany, in 1875, studied at Pratt Institute and apprenticed with Carrere & Hastings before opening his own Bushwick office in 1895. He moved the office to Ridgewood in 1910.
“Louis Berger & Co. was the architect of record for over 5,000 buildings in Ridgewood and Bushwick between 1895 and 1930.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
57-24 Catalpa Avenue begins a row of five tenements filed under one permit
The building is the first of five, 57-24 through 57-32 Catalpa Avenue, that Henry Schlachter built in 1909 under permit NB 204-09 to designs by Louis Berger & Co. Each has a five-bay base with four bays above, pale yellow brick, and a cornice with dentils, modillions and swags. At 57-24 the paired wood-and-glass entry doors with their wood-grain finish and transom survive.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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