60-26 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 house at 60-26 Catalpa Avenue
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This two-family house dates from about 1909, when Paul Stier built it from Louis Berger & Company plans filed as NB 1379-1909. Its front of orange iron-spot brick curves out in a full-height rounded bay. A historic iron railing still lines the basement steps in the front areaway, where bluestone steps lead down to the opening beneath the stoop.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
Stier's crews speed up rows like this one by leaving openings in the party walls
Paul Stier and Louis Berger finished houses quickly by repeating a few basic floor plans and varying only the facade finishes. The brick walls dividing neighboring houses had arches built into them, apparently left open while work went on. Workers and materials could then move from house to house inside the row instead of going in and out by each stoop. The openings were probably closed up as the houses neared completion.
“…brick party walls between separate buildings within each row had interior relieving arches that appear to have been left open during construction…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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