57-31 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
57-31 Catalpa Avenue goes up as the last of Charles Fritz's four-building group
This building on lot 28 of block 3465 is the last of a group of four that Charles Fritz filed together in 1913 as permit NB 302-13, running from 57-25 to 57-31 Catalpa Avenue. Louis Allmendinger designed all four in a mix of Renaissance and Romanesque Revival styles on the north side of Catalpa between Seneca and Onderdonk avenues.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2010
57-31 Catalpa Avenue keeps wood windows in its projecting end bay
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57-31 ends in a bay that projects from the pale yellow and amber brick front. The 2010 landmarks survey found wood windows with storm sashes still in that bay on the first and second floors, while the other openings had vinyl replacements. The paired wood-and-glass doors and transom survived, but the stoop had been rebuilt in brick and concrete and a metal awning added at the entry.
“…amber-colored brick base and projecting last bay ... Vinyl replacement windows in all openings except last bay at first and second floors which have wood windows with storms…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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