60-16 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
60-16 Catalpa Avenue keeps its original stoop, door and iron fence posts
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Paul Stier built this two-family house about 1909 as part of the 23-house 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 and historic egg-and-dart trim on every window frame. Much original fabric survives: the stoop, the main door and the iron areaway fence and gate posts are all historic, though a fire escape was later added at the second story.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
Iron-spot brick, made for fire resistance, faces the house and its curved bay
The front of this house is buff iron-spot brick, the light-colored, smooth type that made up most of the Kreischer brick used in Ridgewood. Iron-spot or iron-speckled brick is made by mixing finely ground manganese into the clay, which hardens it against weather and fire, and it was common in factory smokestacks. The commission's report says Ridgewood's masons used Kreischer's wedge-shaped fire brick to get the tight brickwork of curved bays like this one.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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