58-58 Catalpa Avenue

also 68-58 Forest Avenue, 68-56 Forest Avenue | Ridgewood | built 1907

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

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1907
Walter B. Wills designs the corner store-and-flats building at Catalpa and Forest avenues
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Filed as new-building permit 2376 of 1907, this three-story corner building closes the row Walter B. Wills designed for Cornelius Weberig on Catalpa Avenue, though it was permitted separately from 58-54 and 58-56. It has a second facade on Forest Avenue, where it is also known as 68-56 Forest Avenue. Its iron-spot brick fronts have rough-faced stone arches with keystones and a bracketed cornice with dentils and festoons.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1914
A 1914 map shows shops on the corner and in the building's south extension
The 1914 Sanborn map shows a storefront on the Catalpa Avenue corner and another in the building's south extension. Sometime after 1940 the shop in the extension was split into two storefronts. The 2014 designation report noted that the corner still keeps its historic storefront cornice and cast-iron pilasters, while the storefront infill in the extension has been replaced.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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