4 Governors Island

also 4 Barry Road, 4B Governors Island, 4A Governors Island | 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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1855
The Army builds a pair of field officers' houses east of the green at Fort Columbus
Building 4 is put up between 1855 and 1857 as one of two double houses for field officers, on the east side of what is now Nolan Park. Fort Columbus's garrison was growing during the 1850s. The two houses set the size and form for the later officers' quarters built around the green.
“Building 4 was constructed as one of a pair of field officers' housing, each designed with two units, on the east side of the green (Nolan Park)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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