Army YMCA (Fort Jay YMCA)

324 Cartigan Road | also 324 Governors Island, 324 Owasco Road, 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.

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1926
May & Hillard design the Army YMCA, the island's first big masonry building after World War I
The Army YMCA, completed in 1926 to designs by the New York firm of May & Hillard, was the first large masonry structure the post built after World War I. It replaced a much smaller earlier YMCA. Its neo-Georgian brick style set the pattern for later buildings on the island, and an open-air swimming pool lies behind it. By the time of the 1996 landmark report it had been empty for several years.
“…constructed in 1926 to the designs of the New York architectural firm of May & Hillard as the Army YMCA, was the first large-scale masonry structure built after World War I…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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