57-26 Catalpa Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1909

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

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1844
The land under 57-26 Catalpa Avenue belongs to the farm of John C. Debevoise
Before the tenements, the part of the historic district south of Catalpa Avenue, which was then called Elm Avenue, belonged to John C. Debevoise, a member of a prominent Newtown family whose holdings stretched east past Forest Avenue. In 1844 the Bremen-born Joachim Meyerrose briefly worked on the Debevoise farm, and in 1854 he bought almost nine acres from Debevoise for his own farm.
“Only the small portion of the district south of Catalpa Avenue was formerly owned by Debevoise…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
57-26 Catalpa Avenue keeps its cast-iron door hood as other details change
Read more
One of the five tenements built under Henry Schlachter's 1909 permit NB 204-09, the building retains a bracketed cast-iron hood over its central entry, a brownstone water table and a grey-painted cornice with swags. The landmarks survey recorded aluminum replacement windows, metal grille doors, grilles on two first-floor windows, and a new brick and cast-stone stoop.
“…central entry with bracketed, cast-iron door hood; brownstone water table and bluestone sills at base…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

Nearby