58-56 Catalpa Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1907

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.

1907
Walter B. Wills designs a store-and-flats building in Cornelius Weberig's Catalpa Avenue row
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Built under the same 1907 permit (NB 2375-1907) as the flats building at 58-54, this three-story building had apartments over a ground-floor shop and was designed by Walter B. Wills for owner Cornelius Weberig. A 1914 Sanborn map already shows the storefront. The front is iron-spot brick and limestone with cast-iron storefront pilasters and a bracketed cornice with dentils.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2014
The shop front has been bricked over in yellow brick with a window
By the time of the 2014 Central Ridgewood Historic District designation report, the storefront was gone. The opening and the place where the storefront cornice had been were filled with yellow brick with a single window, and the main entrance had been made smaller and given a new door frame. The cast-iron pilasters and the original upper cornice remain on the north facade.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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