Tampa Memorial Library

251 Tampa Road | also 251 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.

1908
A Fort Jay quartermaster workshop becomes the Tampa Memorial Library
Building S-251 was put up around 1908 as a one-story wood-frame storehouse and workshop for the quartermaster at Fort Jay. It later became the base library and was named the Tampa Memorial Library, in memory of the Tampa, which was sunk in 1918. The brick-based building stands at the corner of Andes Road and Tampa Road.
“Building S-251 was built about 1908 to serve the needs of the Fort Jay Quartermaster for storage and as a workshop. The structure, named the Tampa Memorial Library…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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