60-57 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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1847
Farmer George Hulst rents the land north of Catalpa Avenue from the Debevoise family
Before the row houses, this side of Catalpa Avenue was farmland. In 1847 George Hulst (1811-1902), a Williamsburgh native, rented from the Debevoise family a tract stretching from about Catalpa Avenue north to Putnam Avenue, and in 1851 he bought it outright. He started selling lots on the western side of his estate of more than 65 acres in the 1860s, but the Hulsts kept much of the land east of today's 60th Lane until the early 1900s.
“In 1847, another farmer, George Hulst, rented from the Debevoise family a portion land that includes the section…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
Louis Berger & Company designs 60-57 Catalpa Avenue as a two-family house for builder Paul Stier
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Filed under new-building application 3056 of 1909, the house is a two-story Renaissance Revival row house over a basement, built of brick and stone. It is one of ten buildings Stier raised from 60-49 to 60-67 Catalpa Avenue: a three-story flats building with a ground-floor store at 60-49 and nine two-family houses. Its entrance has a bracketed stone hood with a triangular pediment and incised decoration, and the cornice is trimmed with consoles and swags.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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