57-28 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
Henry Schlachter builds 57-28 Catalpa Avenue to a design by Louis Berger & Co.
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This tenement belongs to the group Henry Schlachter built in 1909 along the south side of Catalpa Avenue, the next wave of housing in what became the Ridgewood South Historic District. Its designer, Louis Berger & Co., is credited as architect on more than 5,000 Ridgewood and Bushwick buildings from 1895 to 1930. Berger, born in Germany in 1875, had trained at Pratt Institute and apprenticed with Carrere & Hastings.
“The next group of residential buildings in the district was constructed on the south side of Catalpa Avenue in 1909 by developer Henry Schlachter.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2010
57-28 Catalpa Avenue keeps its old stoop railing and cast-iron door hood
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57-28 has a pale yellow brick front with rough-faced buff brick arches over its windows. The 2010 landmarks survey recorded its bracketed cast-iron door hood, paired wood-and-glass doors, wood screens at the basement and historic stoop and areaway railing, though the stoop itself had been rebuilt in tile and cast stone and the rear wall stuccoed off-white.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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