Fort Columbus Barracks

210 Andes Road | also 210 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.

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

1834
Fort Columbus builds a Greek Revival barracks inside the Fort Jay quadrangle
Building 210 was built in 1834-36 as one of the Fort Columbus barracks, a long two-story brick building with two-story brownstone Doric columns. Iron balconies with staircases were added at the second story in the 1860s, and a vaulted passage runs through and under it to the west side of the fort. It later became officers' family housing.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1875
A Surgeon General's report finds a bakery, barbershop and privies in the quadrangle's corner annexes
The Surgeon General's Office surveyed Governors Island in 1875 and described the quadrangle buildings as having basement kitchens for the troops and officers living inside the fort. Small triangular buildings at the corners were used by tailors and married soldiers and held a bakery, a barbershop, sculleries and privies. A 1934 survey counted eight such structures around the quadrangle in all, five of which were later absorbed into the barracks buildings, and Building 210's angled end walls come from that absorption.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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