59-33 Catalpa Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1910

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

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1913
59-33 Catalpa Avenue is filed as its own building in Christian Doenecke's 1913 row
Christian Doenecke was the original owner of this flats building, which went up around 1913 under New Building application 3449-1913 on Queens tax block 3505. Louis Berger & Company drew the plans for the three-story house with a basement, done in the Renaissance Revival style, on the same block as Doenecke's other Catalpa Avenue flats.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1913
Katherina Doenecke appears as owner of many of the houses her husband Christian builds
The landmarks report notes that Katherina Kaeppel Doenecke, a German-born woman married to the builder Christian Doenecke, was named as the owner on many of his developments, among them the 1913 row at 59-29 to 59-35 Catalpa Avenue. The couple lived in Brooklyn for many years and later settled in White Plains, New York.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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