60-22 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 builds an orange-brick two-family house at 60-22 Catalpa Avenue
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This house went up around 1909 for builder Paul Stier under permit NB 1379-1909, to plans by Louis Berger & Company. It is one of 23 matching two-family houses lining the block from 60-04 to 60-48, in the Renaissance Revival style. Its front of orange iron-spot brick swells into a rounded bay under a modillioned metal cornice with festoons. Later alterations added a new door frame with a sidelight and transom and added a metal awning over the entrance.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
Louis Berger, Ridgewood's busiest architect, designs this row for Paul Stier
The house was drawn by Louis Berger & Company, the firm credited with every Stier building in the district. Berger, born in Rheinpfalz, Germany, in 1875, trained at Pratt Institute, apprenticed with Carrere & Hastings and opened his own office in Bushwick in 1895. He specialized in tenement design and the laws governing it, and from 1895 to 1930 was the architect of record on more than 5,000 Ridgewood and Bushwick 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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