58-38 Catalpa Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1910

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.

1910
Henry Schlachter builds 58-38 Catalpa Avenue as a three-story store with flats
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Henry Schlachter built this three-story store-and-flats building around 1910 from plans by Adam Schlachter, as part of their row of stores with flats. It differs from its gray-brick neighbors at 58-34 and 58-36, with tan iron-spot brick, lintels with molded caps and a modillioned cornice with dentils over a paneled fascia. The storefront was later filled in with yellow brick and a window under an asphalt-shingle pent roof.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1912
Builder Henry Schlachter lives in 58-38 Catalpa Avenue, one of the houses he built
By 1912 city directories listed Henry Schlachter (1860-1921) at 58-38 Catalpa Avenue, a building he and his son Adam, its architect, had put up as part of their row of stores with flats. Schlachter had been listed in directories as a mason or a builder since 1887, and Adam, born in New York to German parents who settled in Bushwick, was recorded as a mason as well.
“In 1912, the elder Schlachter was listed as living at 58-38 Catalpa Avenue, one of the houses that he and his son built…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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