59-34 Catalpa Avenue
Ridgewood | built 1909
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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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- 1909
59-34 Catalpa Avenue goes up in Paul Stier's most common house type, with a deep curved bay
Louis Berger & Company drew Stier's bay-front houses in three basic designs, and the most common one, with more than 200 built from 1908 to 1912, has a pronounced bay rising two or three stories over a raised basement and a rough-faced brownstone stoop. Berger varied the brick colors and ornament subtly from one row to the next, and the landmarks report names the 1909 Catalpa Avenue row from 59-02 to 59-38 as an example of the type.
“Examples include 60-55 to 60-99 69th Avenue (1908), 60-57 to 60-99 70th Avenue (1908), 59-02 to 59-38 Catalpa Avenue (1909)…”
- 1909
Louis Berger, architect of over 5,000 Ridgewood and Bushwick buildings, designs 59-34 Catalpa
Every Stier building in the district, this one included, is credited to Louis Berger & Company. Berger, born in the Rheinpfalz in 1875, came to America in 1880, studied at Pratt Institute and apprenticed with Carrere & Hastings before opening his own office in Bushwick in 1895. A specialist in tenement design and the laws governing it, he was architect of record for more than 5,000 buildings between 1895 and 1930, and from 1910 served as secretary-treasurer of Bauer & Stier.
“Berger was known to have been the architect of record for over 5,000 buildings in Ridgewood and Bushwick between 1895 and 1930.”
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