Nolan Park Building 17

17 Governors Island | also 17 Evans 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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1878
Building 17 is an L-shaped wood house with a bracketed porch across its front
Building 17 is a two-story wood-frame house with clapboard siding on a brick foundation, L-shaped in plan, with decorative brackets under the eaves. A full-width porch with scrollwork brackets and balustrades runs across the east front toward Nolan Park. The twentieth century added a garage, a one-story addition and an enclosed rear porch.
“A full-width porch with a shallow hipped roof supported by square posts and with decorative scrollwork brackets and balustrades extends across the east facade.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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