57-30 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.

1909
German-born mason Henry Schlachter puts up 57-30 Catalpa Avenue
Henry Schlachter, who built this six-family tenement in 1909, had arrived in the United States from Germany in 1880 and started out as a mason. He grew into a leading builder in Bushwick and Ridgewood, putting up two-family houses and larger six-family flats, worked on the rectory of St. Matthias Church, and later developed single-family houses north of Jamaica Village.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2010
57-30 Catalpa Avenue still has original wood windows on its lower floors
Read more
When landmarks surveyors described the building in 2010, 57-30 retained historic wood windows at its basement, first and second floors, along with its paired wood-and-glass doors under a bracketed cast-iron hood. Other changes had crept in: aluminum replacement windows, a new brick-and-cast-stone stoop, and a rear wall stuccoed tan with a satellite dish.
“…historic wood windows at basement, first and second floor ... Aluminum replacement windows ... non-historic brick-and-cast-stone stoop and railing…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

Nearby