57-29 Catalpa Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1913

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.

1913
Charles Fritz and partner Joseph Barudio develop the row that includes 57-29 Catalpa Avenue
In 1913 Charles Fritz developed the lots on the northwest side of Catalpa Avenue across Onderdonk Avenue, building them in partnership with another German, Joseph Barudio. Fritz, who emigrated from Germany to Ridgewood as a boy in the late 1870s, had been working as a builder since 1895. He hired Louis Allmendinger to design the tenements, which look very much like the Mathews Model Flats.
“…those across Onderdonk Avenue on the northwest side of Catalpa Avenue, were developed by Charles Fritz in 1913. Fritz used Allmendinger to design the tenement buildings…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2010
Surveyors find original paired doors and basement windows at 57-29 Catalpa Avenue
Read more
When the Landmarks Preservation Commission surveyed the building for the Ridgewood South Historic District, 57-29 still had its paired wood-and-glass entrance doors and transom, wood basement windows with grilles, and its old areaway railing and newel posts. The survey also listed a non-historic stoop and railing of brick and cast stone, vinyl replacement windows in the upper openings, and a carved stone door surround painted off-white.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

Nearby