60-36 Catalpa Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1909

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1909
Paul Stier builds a buff-brick two-family house with a rounded bay to Louis Berger & Company's design
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Builder Paul Stier put up 60-36 Catalpa Avenue around 1909 under new-building permit 1379-1909, with plans by Louis Berger & Company. The two-story Renaissance Revival house has a full-height rounded bay, buff iron-spot brick with panels of rough-faced gray brick, and a pedimented limestone hood over the door. It was one of 23 two-family houses Stier lined up along this side of Catalpa Avenue, numbered 60-04 to 60-48, and it still kept its historic front door when the Landmarks Preservation Commission surveyed it.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
German-born Paul Stier, Ridgewood's largest builder, develops this row
The house's builder, Paul Stier, was born in Mecklenburg, Germany, in 1874 and came to America by himself in 1891, staying with relatives in Buffalo and working there as a mason's apprentice. After moving to the Ridgewood area in 1902 he turned out brick row houses in great numbers, and 1907 through 1909 were his busiest years: 392 of the 481 buildings he raised in what became the Central Ridgewood Historic District date from that span. Stier Place, a small street in the district, carries his name.
“His most active years were from 1907 to 1909, when he built 392 of the 481 buildings that he eventually developed within the historic district.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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