60-61 Catalpa Avenue
Ridgewood | built 1909
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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 builds 60-61 Catalpa Avenue from a handful of standard plans
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This two-family house, designed by Louis Berger & Company, went up about 1909 as one of nine in a row Paul Stier built from 60-51 to 60-67 Catalpa Avenue. Stier and Berger worked fast by reusing a few floor plans and facade designs with different surface finishes. Most of their houses were about 20 feet wide, with a five-room apartment on the first floor and six rooms on the floor above, each with its own kitchen and bathroom.
“Stier and Berger were able to complete houses at a very fast pace because they used only a handful of basic floor plans…”
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