57-33 Catalpa Avenue

also 866 Onderdonk Avenue | Ridgewood | built 1913

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1913
Charles Fritz builds a corner tenement at Catalpa and Onderdonk avenues
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Charles Fritz filed a separate permit, NB 303-13, for the corner building at 57-33 Catalpa Avenue in 1913. Also known as 866 and 876 Onderdonk Avenue, it occupies lot 27 of block 3465 and was designed by Louis Allmendinger in a Renaissance and Romanesque Revival style. Its ground floor held a storefront facing Catalpa Avenue.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2010
The corner of 57-33 Catalpa Avenue curves, and its storefronts have been filled in
The building's pale yellow brick front wraps around the corner in a curve, with four bays on Catalpa Avenue and eleven on Onderdonk Avenue, where a carved limestone entrance with a pedimented hood sits at the center and two historic metal fire escapes survive. By the 2010 landmarks survey the Catalpa storefront had been bricked in with new windows, and the Onderdonk ground floor carried rounded awnings and metal roll gates.
“…facade is curved at corner ... masonry infill and non-historic fenestration replace storefront at ground floor ... East (Onderdonk Avenue) elevation: Eleven bay…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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