59-31 Catalpa Avenue
Ridgewood | built 1910
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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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- 1913
Christian Doenecke builds a three-story flats house at 59-31 Catalpa Avenue to designs by Louis Berger & Company
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Around 1913 the builder Christian Doenecke put up this Renaissance Revival flats building, three stories over a basement, under New Building application 3515-1913, with Louis Berger & Company as architects. Its iron-spot brick front has a rounded bay running the full height, a bracketed door hood carved with stylized leaves, and a metal cornice with festoons and dentils. The landmarks report counts it among four flats buildings filed under three separate applications.
- 1913
Brooklyn mason Christian Doenecke develops the row from 59-29 to 59-35 Catalpa Avenue
Christian Doenecke, born in Germany in 1859, came to the United States in 1883, became a citizen in 1886 and was working as a mason in Brooklyn by 1894. He went on to run Christian Doenecke & Co., a construction firm dissolved in 1931. In 1913 the Doeneckes built the Catalpa Avenue houses from 59-29 to 59-35, all designed by Berger and similar to Paul Stier's houses.
“The Doeneckes built 58-03 to 58-47 69th Avenue (1909) and 59-29 to 59-35 Catalpa Avenue (1913), all designed by Berger…”
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- 59-29 Catalpa Avenue1 entry
- 59-33 Catalpa Avenue2 entries
- 59-27 Catalpa Avenue2 entries
- 59-35 Catalpa Avenue1 entry
- 59-25 Catalpa Avenue2 entries
- 59-23 Catalpa Avenue3 entries