Building 12 (Officers' Quarters)

12E Kimmel Road | also 12E Governors Island, 140 Carder Road | Governors Island | built 1900

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

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1931
Army builds Building 12 as a brick neo-Georgian housing block of fifteen sections
Building 12 went up in 1931 as officers' family housing for the 16th Infantry, faced in red brick over a reinforced-concrete frame. Its fifteen entrances are broken into separate sections so the long block reads as smaller houses: seven form a reverse U around a courtyard open to Buttermilk Channel, with three more to the west and five to the east. Slate roofs, arched dormers and limestone doorways give it a neo-Georgian look. This address is one of those sections.
“Building 12 is a brick-faced structure on a concrete foundation composed of fifteen sections, detailed and organized in such a way as to break up the building's bulk.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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