Building 315, officers' family housing

315 Cartigan Road | also 315 Governors Island, 315A Cartigan Road, 315B Cartigan 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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1938
The Army builds family housing for 16th Regiment officers above Buttermilk Channel
Building 315, a three-and-a-half-story neo-Georgian brick block, went up in 1938-40 to the plans of the Quartermaster General's construction division. It was one of a pair with Building 555, both meant to house officers of the 16th Regiment and their families. The housing belonged to a 1928 beautification plan by McKim, Mead & White, but money to build it did not arrive until the late 1930s.
“…constructed in 1938-40 as one of a pair with Building 555 as family housing for officers of the 16th Regiment ... delayed until funding became available in the late 1930s…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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