Fort Totten Building 325
325 Sergeant Beers Loop | also 423 Abbott Road | Fort Totten
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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.
- 1893
The Army builds Building 325 as artillery barracks and a mess hall for 133 men
Building 325 went up in 1893-94 to serve as artillery barracks and a mess hall for 133 men, built by the Jason Curran Manufacturing Company for the Office of the Quartermaster General to its standard barracks plan 41-A. It was one of three identical barracks, with Buildings 322 and 323, put up for a fast-growing post then still called the Fort at Willets Point. It took the place of early wooden barracks at the south edge of the parade ground.
“Building 325 was constructed in 1893-94 as an artillery barracks and mess hall to house 133 men.”
- 1904
A kitchen wing, Building 327, is added behind the barracks
Around 1904 a one-and-a-half-story red brick kitchen wing, numbered Building 327, was added behind the barracks, set parallel to its three-story center. A one-story brick hyphen finished in stucco joins the wing to the main building. A two-story brick garage addition stands on the wing's north side.
“The rear wing (Building 327) was added after 1904 to serve as a kitchen.”
- 1999
Former barracks, now classrooms and offices, is slated for the New York City Fire Department
After serving as military housing, Building 325 was turned into offices, classrooms and a training facility. When the Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Fort Totten Historic District in June 1999, much of the post was about to pass to the city, and Building 325 was on the list of buildings to be placed under the Fire Department's jurisdiction.
“324, 325, 326, 327, 328, 329, 331, 332, 333, 336,337, 400 ... will be under the jurisdiction of the Fire Department.”
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