58-42 Catalpa Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1911

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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  1. 1911

    Paul Hunger builds 58-42 Catalpa Avenue as stores with flats, paired with 58-40

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    Built around 1911 under permit 3050 of 1911 for Paul Hunger and designed by Louis Berger & Company, this three-story building of stores with flats is one of a pair with 58-40. Its tan iron-spot brick front has limestone sills, lintels with molded caps and a modillioned cornice with dentils. Its storefront has been replaced and now carries security gates, an awning, an illuminated box sign and lit bracket signs on the second story.

    “Alterations: Security gates, awning, and internally illuminated box sign at ground story; internally illuminated bracket signs at second story…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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