60-12 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
60-12 Catalpa Avenue keeps its historic front door from Paul Stier's 1909 row
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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 designed by Louis Berger & Company. Its buff iron-spot brick front has a full-height rounded bay, egg-and-dart trim on the basement window frames and a limestone door hood, now painted. When the Landmarks Preservation Commission surveyed it, the house still had its historic main door and possibly historic basement windows under an original metal cornice.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
Masons James Reilly and John MacDonald oversee the bricklayers on Stier's houses
To lay up houses such as this one, Paul Stier hired two local masons, James Reilly and John MacDonald, who supervised a crew of about 50 bricklayers. Many of the workers were German and Italian immigrants, and they set both the face brick and the stone ornament on Stier's Ridgewood houses.
“Paul Stier hired a pair of local masons, James Reilly and John MacDonald, to supervise a staff of 50 or so bricklayers…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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