59-04 Catalpa Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1909

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

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1909
Paul Stier and Louis Berger & Company build a bay-fronted flats building
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This three-story flats building over a basement went up in 1909 under permit NB 1378-1909 as one of Paul Stier's 17 flats buildings from 59-04 to 59-36 Catalpa Avenue, which come with two store-and-flats buildings. Louis Berger & Company designed it. The beige iron-spot brick front has a full-height rounded bay, a classical door hood on leafy brackets and a modillioned cornice trimmed with egg-and-dart molding and festoons.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
The row belongs to Stier's most common type, the curved-bay house with a brownstone stoop
The landmarks report groups 59-02 to 59-38 Catalpa Avenue with the third and most common kind of Stier house, of which more than 200 were built from 1908 to 1912. These have strongly projecting bays and rough-faced brownstone stoops with solid side walls. Berger varied brick colors and ornament from row to row, and Stier and Berger worked quickly by reusing a small set of floor plans and facade designs.
“The third, and most most common type of Stier house, of which over 200 were built between 1908 and 1912…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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