59-07 Catalpa Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1908

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

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1908
Builders Charles Fritz and Joseph Barudio build the tenement row at 59-01 to 59-11 Catalpa Avenue
Charles Fritz came to Ridgewood from Germany as a child and started building in 1895, sometimes in partnership with another German, Joseph Barudio. In 1908 the pair built the tenements at 59-01 to 59-11 Catalpa Avenue from plans by Louis Berger & Company. The Landmarks Preservation Commission calls this three-story row more elaborate than most of Berger's work in the district, pointing to its coursed brick and keystones carved with faces.
“Fritz & Barudio built the row of tenements at 59-01 to 59-11 Catalpa Avenue (1908), which were designed by Louis Berger & Company…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1908
A carved shield marks the door hood of 59-07 Catalpa Avenue, first of three matching flats buildings
This is one of three flats buildings at 59-07 to 59-11 Catalpa Avenue that Louis Berger & Company designed for Joseph Barudio and Charles Fritz under permit NB 2963-1908. At 59-07 the classical door hood rests on leafy brackets and carries a carved shield. Carved panels sit beneath the first-story windows, and the upper windows have keystones in the form of masks. The stoop's railings and newel posts have since been removed.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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