57-25 Catalpa Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1913

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

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1913
Ridgewood builder Charles Fritz and partner Joseph Barudio put up 57-25 Catalpa Avenue
Charles Fritz, who developed this building in 1913, was a German immigrant who arrived in Ridgewood as a boy late in the 1870s and started work as a builder in 1895. He built his Onderdonk and Catalpa Avenue tenements together with Joseph Barudio, another German, and Fritz also put up a number of other multi-family buildings around Ridgewood. Fritz chose Louis Allmendinger as architect for this group.
“He constructed the buildings on Onderdonk and Catalpa Avenues in partnership with fellow German Joseph Barudio…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1913
57-25 Catalpa Avenue keeps its bluestone stoop and areaway ironwork
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57-25 is the first of four tenements, 57-25 through 57-31, filed together by Charles Fritz in 1913 under permit NB 302-13. It has a five-bay base with four bays above, a central entry framed in carved limestone, and a historic bluestone stoop with its historic areaway fence, newel posts and gate. The rear wall, painted white, carries a metal fire escape and a clothesline.
“…historic bluestone stoop; wood windows with grilles at basement; historic areaway fence, newel posts and gate…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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