Building 404, Regimental Row

404D Comfort Road | also 404A Comfort Road, 404C Comfort Road, 404B Comfort Road | Governors Island | built 1900

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.

1902
The Army builds Building 404, a brick double house for officers on Regimental Row
Building 404 was built in 1902-05 as one of six brick houses facing the island's southwestern shore. The group followed standard Quartermaster General plans and had five double sets for officers plus one single-family house. This one is a Colonial Revival double house of red pressed brick on a schist foundation, with Palladian windows in its gables.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1952
The double house is converted into a four-unit dwelling and loses its front porches
In 1952 Building 404 was converted from a double house into a four-unit dwelling. The original front porches came off, and the entrances were rebuilt under copper canopies. A small brick sun-porch wing also stands on the house's north side, and the lawn around it is crossed by brick paths from Clayton Road and Hay Road.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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