Officers' Quarters, Building 12

12L Barry Road | also 12L Governors Island, 12L Kimmel Road, 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
Building 12 is built in fifteen brick sections so its bulk looks smaller beside Buttermilk Channel
Completed in 1931 for officers' families of the 16th Infantry, Building 12 was designed by the office of McKim, Mead & White with the Quartermaster General's construction division. Seven sections form a reverse U around a courtyard facing Buttermilk Channel, with three more sections extending west and five east. Shallow projecting pavilions topped by pediments break up the long facade.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1931
Building 12 is the first family housing for officers under the 1928 McKim, Mead & White island plan
Building 12 was the first housing for officers' families built under the unified beautification plan that McKim, Mead & White's office drew up for Governors Island in 1928. The Office of the Quartermaster General carried it out. Later family housing for officers on the island, Buildings 315 and 555 among it, followed the model it established.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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