Fort Jay corner outbuilding

213 Governors Island | also 140 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.

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  1. 1834

    Small triangular outbuildings at the corners of the Fort Columbus barracks hold a bakery, tailors and a barbershop

    Building 213 is a small triangular one-story building with a granite and sandstone foundation, put up in 1834-36 beside the new barracks of Fort Columbus. An 1875 Surgeon General's report found a bakery, a barbershop, tailors, married soldiers, sculleries and privies in the triangular corner buildings around the quadrangle. A 1934 survey counted eight of them, five of which had been absorbed into the barracks by then.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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