60-06 Catalpa Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1909

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.

1906
Paul Stier buys the Debevoise farmland where this house will stand
The land south of Catalpa Avenue and east of Forest Avenue had been part of the Debevoise family's farm, which straddled Myrtle Avenue and was sold off to investors and speculators around the turn of the century. In 1906 Paul Stier acquired a large piece of it north of Myrtle Avenue, between today's 60th Street and Fresh Pond Road, and began building there intensively the following year. This house, raised by Stier about 1909, stands on that tract.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
Louis Berger & Company designs 60-06 Catalpa Avenue in orange brick between buff neighbors
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Paul Stier built this two-family house around 1909, one of 23 in the row from 60-04 to 60-48 Catalpa Avenue, all drawn by Louis Berger & Company. Its face is orange iron-spot brick, while the houses at 60-04 and 60-08 are buff, an alternation the commission's report sees across Stier's rows. The two-story Renaissance Revival front has a full-height rounded bay, rough-faced gray brick panels under the windows and its original modillioned metal cornice.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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