New York Arsenal Storehouse

140 Carder Road | also 140 Governors Island, 140A Carder Road, 140B Carder Road | Governors Island | built 1900

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1867

    An earlier building on the site: a U-shaped storehouse and shot shed stand where Building 140 will rise

    When the Arsenal's sea wall was extended at its northwest corner after an 1860 inspection recommended it, the new ground became the site of a shot-and-shell storage building. An 1867 map shows a large U-shaped structure there, made up of a storehouse and a shed for shot and shell. These earlier structures, on the site of Building 140, were probably temporary.

    “…appeared on a 1867 map as a large U-shaped structure composed of a storehouse and a shed for shot and shell…”

    Source: cdn.loc.gov

  2. 1875

    The Arsenal builds a brick storehouse for the obsolete ordnance piled up since the Civil War

    Building 140 replaced the earlier temporary storehouse in 1875 to hold ordnance that had become obsolete after the Civil War. After the Arsenal closed in 1920 the Second Corps Area of the Army kept using it as a warehouse. In 1938 Works Progress Administration crews removed a porch from the north side and turned the main entrance toward the west.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1951

    The old storehouse becomes a telephone exchange, then a post office and bank by 1966

    In the 1940s the building stored clothing and equipment. A 1951 renovation fitted it out as the island's telephone exchange. In 1966, when the Coast Guard took over the island, it held the post office, the guard watch, the district armory and a small-arms store, and that year a bank replaced the armory.

    Source: cdn.loc.gov

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