Fort Jay barracks
202 Governors Island | also 202 Andes Road, 140 Carder Road | Governors Island | built 1900
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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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- 1836
The Army builds the quadrangle barracks of Fort Columbus to replace the worn-out ones of the 1790s
Building 202 went up in 1834-36 as one of four barracks around the quadrangle inside Fort Columbus, while the Army's presence on Governors Island was expanding. The barracks left from the 1790s fort had badly deteriorated by the late 1820s. The four buildings have been in continuous use ever since, as quarters for officers or enlisted men and, under the Coast Guard, as family housing.
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