War Department Theater
330 Cartigan Road | also 330 Governors Island, 140 Carder Road | Governors Island | built 1900
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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.
- 1937
The Army builds the War Department Theater, a standard base movie house
Building 330 was built in 1937-39 by the Quartermaster General's construction division as the War Department Theater. Its plain rectangular plan and neo-Georgian trim matched the theaters then going up on military posts. It has gone on screening films and doubles as an auditorium, and a small wing was later added at its south end.
“This theater design, with a rectangular plan and neo-Georgian detail, was typical of those constructed on military bases during this period.”
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