Building 333, First Army Detachment Barracks

333 Owasco Road | also 333 Governors Island, 140 Carder Road | Governors Island | built 1900

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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.

  1. 1946

    A WAC detachment moves into the old barracks after the First Army's wartime departure

    In 1943 the First Army shifted its headquarters to Bristol, England, and the barracks passed to the Second Service Command, under which part of the building became offices. In 1946 it housed a detachment of the Women's Army Corps. In 1966 the Coast Guard turned the building into training classrooms.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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