Jewish Chapel

40 Governors Island | also 40 Barry 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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1918
Army builds Building S-40 as wartime storage, later made a Jewish chapel
Building S-40 went up in 1918 as a one-story wood storage shed while the Army was enlarging its facilities on Governors Island for World War I. Sometime in the middle of the twentieth century, possibly the 1960s, it was converted into a place of Jewish worship and meeting space. The sections used for worship have multi-paned windows, and the siding was later replaced with horizontal clapboard.
“…originally constructed for temporary storage in 1918 as the Army was expanding its facilities on the island during World War I.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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