59-06 Catalpa Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1909

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1. 1909

   Paul Stier, who came from Germany alone as a teenager, builds this house on former Debevoise farmland

   This block, south of Catalpa Avenue and east of Forest Avenue, lies on land the Debevoise family once farmed and sold off to investors and speculators around 1900. Paul Stier, born in Mecklenburg, Germany, in 1874, came to America alone in 1891 and worked as a mason's apprentice in Buffalo. He moved to the Ridgewood area in 1902 and became its largest single developer, building this flats building about 1909.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1909

   Paul Stier builds 59-06 Catalpa Avenue as one of 17 bowfront flats buildings

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   Paul Stier put up this three-story flats building around 1909 under permit NB 1378-1909, part of a row of 17 at 59-04 to 59-36 Catalpa Avenue designed by Louis Berger & Company. Its orange iron-spot brick front swells into a rounded bay that rises the full height of the house. A classical entrance hood on foliated brackets and a cornice with egg-and-dart molding and festoons survive.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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