60-04 Catalpa Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1909

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1909
Paul Stier builds 60-04 Catalpa Avenue as the first house of a row of 23
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Around 1909 builder Paul Stier put up this two-story house over a basement under new-building permit 1379 of that year, from plans by Louis Berger & Company. It opens a run of 23 two-family houses reaching to 60-48 Catalpa Avenue, with store-and-flats buildings on the two corners. The Renaissance Revival front is buff iron-spot brick with a full-height rounded bay, a bracketed limestone door hood whose pediment holds incised foliate ornament, and its original metal cornice with festoons.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
Ridgewood's biggest builder, Paul Stier, adds this house during his busiest years
Stier was born in Mecklenberg, Germany, in 1874 and crossed to America alone as a teenager in 1891, apprenticing as a mason while staying with relatives in Buffalo. He settled in the Ridgewood area in 1902 and became its largest single developer. Of the 481 buildings he raised in what is now the Central Ridgewood Historic District, 392 went up between 1907 and 1909, the period that produced this house. Stier Place, a small street nearby, bears his name.
“His most active years were from 1907 to 1909, when he built 392 of the 481 buildings that he eventually developed within the historic district.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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