59-27 Catalpa Avenue
Ridgewood | built 1911
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1911
A flats building matching Ignatz Martin's row goes up at 59-27 Catalpa Avenue
No building permit has been found for 59-27 Catalpa Avenue, but the 2014 designation report dates it to about 1911 and attributes it to Louis Berger & Company, with Ignatz Martin as its possible first owner. The report's reasoning is that the three-story flats building was first designed exactly like its neighbor, which Berger's firm drew up and Martin built.
“Building was originally identical in design to adjacent building designed by Louis Berger & Company and built by Ignatz Martin; no NB found.”
- 2014
The once-matching facade now wears brick veneer and vinyl siding
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By the time the district was designated in 2014, this house no longer resembled its twin next door. Its front had been resurfaced with brick veneer and vinyl siding, the door hood and window hoods had been taken off, the cornice was not historic, and the stoop had been replaced with its newel posts removed. Surveyors listed only its scale and window pattern as significant features.
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