60-08 Catalpa Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1909

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

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1909
Paul Stier raises 60-08 Catalpa Avenue in buff brick with a rounded bay
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Built about 1909 by Paul Stier under the same permit as the rest of its row (NB 1379-1909), this two-family house is one of 23 between 60-04 and 60-48 Catalpa Avenue. Its Renaissance Revival facade is buff iron-spot brick trimmed with brownstone and limestone, with a full-height rounded bay and a bracketed limestone door hood. Bluestone steps still lead down to the opening under the painted stoop, and the original metal cornice survives.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
Louis Berger, architect of over 5,000 Ridgewood and Bushwick buildings, designs this house
Louis Berger & Company drew the plans for this house; the firm designed, or is credited with, every building Paul Stier put up in the district. Berger, born in Rheinpfalz, Germany, in 1875, came to America as a boy in 1880, settled in Ridgewood in 1892, studied architecture at Pratt Institute and apprenticed with Carrere & Hastings before opening his own Bushwick office in 1895. He specialized in tenement houses and the laws governing them, and between 1895 and 1930 his name stood as architect of record on more than 5,000 Bushwick and Ridgewood buildings.
“Berger was known to have been the architect of record for over 5,000 buildings in Ridgewood and Bushwick between 1895 and 1930.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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