60-43 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 part of the old Debevoise farm south of Catalpa Avenue
The land south of Catalpa Avenue and east of Forest Avenue belonged to a large Debevoise family farm on both sides of Myrtle Avenue, sold around 1900 to investors and speculators such as the Ring-Gibson Company, the D.M. Chauncey Real Estate Company and the William P. Roe Co.. In 1906 Paul Stier acquired a large part of it, between today's 60th Street and Fresh Pond Road north of Myrtle Avenue, and began building there in earnest in 1907.
“A large part of the former Debevoise farm ... was acquired in 1906 by Paul Stier, who began intense development of the area in 1907.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
Paul Stier builds one of a pair of two-family houses on the south side of Catalpa Avenue
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Under a separate permit, NB 3059-1909, Paul Stier built 60-43 Catalpa Avenue around 1909 with Louis Berger & Company as architects. It forms a small group with the matching two-family house at 60-45 and a flats building at 60-47. Its front has a triangular pedimented stone hood on brackets over the door, rough-faced brick panels and a cornice with egg-and-dart, consoles and swags, and the original metal areaway fence and gate survived; the rear shows a curved bay and a historic wooden balcony.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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