59-10 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
Louis Berger, Ridgewood's most prolific architect, designs this house for Paul Stier
Louis Berger was born in Rheinpfalz, Germany, in 1875, emigrated in 1880 as a boy and made Ridgewood his home in 1892. After studying at Pratt Institute and apprenticing with Carrere & Hastings, he opened his own Bushwick office in 1895. Specializing in tenement houses, he drew plans for hundreds of small multi-family homes for most of Ridgewood's builders and was architect of record for more than 5,000 buildings in Ridgewood and Bushwick. In 1910 he became secretary-treasurer of Bauer & Stier, Inc.
“Berger was known to have been the architect of record for over 5,000 buildings in Ridgewood and Bushwick between 1895 and 1930…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
59-10 Catalpa Avenue keeps its historic door and possibly historic windows
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Paul Stier built this orange-brick flats building about 1909 under permit NB 1378-1909, one of a row designed by Louis Berger & Company. It keeps a historic front door, and its upper-story and basement windows may be historic, protected by storm sashes. A metal awning over the entrance and iron stoop railings are later additions.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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