60-24 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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1906
Paul Stier buys the Debevoise farmland where this house will stand
This block, east of Forest Avenue below Catalpa Avenue, once belonged to a Debevoise family farm reaching across Myrtle Avenue, sold off around 1900 to speculators. In 1906 builder Paul Stier bought a large share of it, between today's 60th Street and Fresh Pond Road, and began building there intensively the next year.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
Paul Stier builds 60-24 Catalpa Avenue, later given a rebuilt stoop
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Paul Stier was the original owner of this c. 1909 two-family house, one of a row of 23 designed by Louis Berger & Company under permit NB 1379-1909. It has a buff iron-spot brick front with a full-height rounded bay and a limestone door hood carved with leaf ornament. Its stoop walls were later swapped for metal railings, and the steps were refaced in stone and brick.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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