60-38 Catalpa Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1909

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1851
Farmer George Hulst buys the Debevoise land that later becomes this side of Catalpa Avenue
The ground north of Catalpa Avenue, reaching roughly to Putnam Avenue, was farmland that George Hulst, a Williamsburgh native, began renting from the Debevoise family in 1847 and bought from them in 1851. Starting in the 1860s Hulst sold building lots off the western side of his Ridgewood estate of more than 65 acres, while his family held on to much of the land east of today's 60th Lane into the early 1900s.
“In 1847, another farmer, George Hulst, rented from the Debevoise family a portion land that includes the section ... north of Catalpa Avenue…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
Stier and Berger finish an orange-brick row house that alternates in color with its neighbors
Built about 1909 for Paul Stier from plans by Louis Berger & Company (permit NB 1379-1909), 60-38 Catalpa Avenue is faced in orange iron-spot brick, while the houses on either side at 60-36 and 60-40 use buff brick. It shares the row's full-height rounded bay, pedimented limestone door hood and modillioned metal cornice hung with festoons. Later owners added metal stoop railings, rubber stoop treads, a mailbox and a new door frame with sidelights and a transom.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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