60-40 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's crews build a buff-brick bay-fronted house that keeps its old iron railing
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Paul Stier was the original owner of 60-40 Catalpa Avenue, a two-family house of about 1909 designed by Louis Berger & Company under permit NB 1379-1909. Its two stories over a basement are clad in buff iron-spot brick with rough-faced gray brick panels beneath the windows, and a curved bay rises the full height of the front. The landmarks survey noted a historic iron railing still standing beside the basement steps, alongside newer metal stoop railings and a replaced door frame.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
Architect Louis Berger, who drew over 5,000 Ridgewood and Bushwick buildings, designs the row
Louis Berger & Company drew the plans for this house, the firm to which all of Paul Stier's buildings in the district are credited or attributed. Berger, born in Rheinpfalz, Germany, in 1875, came to America as a boy in 1880, studied architecture at Pratt Institute and apprenticed with Carrere & Hastings before opening his own Bushwick office in 1895. He was architect of record for more than 5,000 buildings in Ridgewood and Bushwick through 1930, specialized in tenement design, and served as president of the Brooklyn Society of Architects.
“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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