Liggett Hall

400A Clayton Road | also 400A Governors Island, 400 Clayton Road, 400 Governors Island | Governors Island | built 1900

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1929
McKim, Mead & White's regimental barracks stretches across Governors Island
Liggett Hall was built in 1929 to designs by McKim, Mead & White, with $1,086,000 approved the year before. At 1,023 feet long, the red-brick Georgian Revival barracks was built to house an entire regiment and was among the largest army barracks in the world. A sally port through its center is inscribed with the Quartermaster Corps and the year 1929.
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1929
The new barracks blocks Fiorello La Guardia's hopes for a Governors Island airport
Liggett Hall replaced wooden barracks from the World War I era that had been damaged by fires, and it housed the 16th Infantry Regiment's garrison. Its placement across nearly the full width of the original island stood in the way of Fiorello La Guardia's 1920s proposal to build a downtown airport on Governors Island.
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1941
The 16th Infantry Regiment's long garrison at Liggett Hall ends
The 16th Infantry Regiment had occupied the site since 1922, first in temporary wooden barracks and old warehouses left from World War I, and then, after 1929, inside the massive new Liggett Hall itself. The regiment's garrison at the post runs until 1941, closing out nearly two decades of continuous use.
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