Building 403, Colonels' Row

403 Governors Island | also 403 Comfort 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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1906
The Army finishes the last of six brick officers' houses on Colonels' Row
Building 403 was put up in 1904-06 at the end of a line of six brick officers' houses along the island's southwestern shore, near today's Hay Road. It was the only single-family house in the group, which otherwise had five double sets (Buildings 404 to 408). All followed standard Quartermaster General plans. The row was later known as Colonels' Row and Brick Row, and a garage was attached to this house in 1931.
“Building 403 was built as the last of a group of six brick houses ... designed according to standardized Quartermaster General plans, incorporated five double sets…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1986
President Reagan meets French President Mitterrand at Building 403
By the 1980s the house, which was officers' family housing, also served for diplomacy. The landmarks report records that Ronald Reagan held meetings here with foreign leaders, among them French President Francois Mitterrand in 1986. Plaques on the inner wall of the porch mark these visits.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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