60-18 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
60-18 Catalpa Avenue keeps its historic door and egg-and-dart window moldings
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This orange iron-spot brick house of about 1909 is one of the 23 two-family houses Paul Stier built from 60-04 to 60-48 Catalpa Avenue, designed by Louis Berger & Company. Like 60-16 next door, it keeps egg-and-dart trim on every window frame, a historic main door and historic iron fence and gate posts. The commission judged its upper-story and basement windows possibly historic, and the modillioned metal cornice with festoons is original.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
German-run Ridgewood firms supply the stone, iron and woodwork for houses like this
Local companies, many owned by people of German descent, furnished much of the stone, ironwork and millwork on houses in this part of Ridgewood. The Evergreen Steam Stone Works on Myrtle Avenue cut most of the stoops and stone ornament; the Ridgewood Iron Works Company and Charles Strubel & Sons made most of the newels, railings and fences; and Charles Rothenbach, Inc. produced most of the window sash, doors and interior woodwork. This house still has historic iron railing and fence posts in its areaway.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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