58-48 Catalpa Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1901

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.

1911
Louis Berger & Company designs a store-and-flats building for Cornelius Weberig
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Under new-building permit 1207 of 1911, Louis Berger & Company drew up this three-story building for owner Cornelius Weberig, with a shop at street level and apartments above. It was faced in tan iron-spot brick and limestone in the Renaissance Revival manner, with rough-faced arched lintels and a bracketed metal cornice. Weberig had already had Walter B. Wills design the neighboring buildings at 58-50 to 58-58 Catalpa Avenue in 1907 and 1908.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2014
The bricked-in storefront marks the main change the landmarks survey records
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The Landmarks Preservation Commission's 2014 report designating the Central Ridgewood Historic District found the original shop front gone: the opening had been rebuilt in brick with a door and two windows, and the storefront cornice had been removed and covered with a metal panel. The upper floors kept their limestone sills, keystoned lintels and dentiled cornice. The report also used this facade to attribute the matching building next door at 58-44 to Berger's firm.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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