Regimental Row Building 406

406A Comfort Road | also 406B Governors Island, 406A Governors Island, 406 Governors Island | Governors Island | built 1900

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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.

  1. 1893

    Building 406 becomes one of the first two brick officers' houses on Regimental Row

    Building 406 was built in 1893 as a double house for Army officers, one of six brick houses lined up along what was then Governors Island's southwestern shoreline, roughly where Hay Road runs now. The group followed standardized Quartermaster General plans, and Buildings 405 and 406 were the first two completed. The houses share a general form and material, with details that vary slightly by construction date.

    “Buildings 405 and 406 were the first two houses to be constructed.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1893

    Building 406 is a Romanesque Revival double house faced in red brick

    The Quartermaster General's office designed Building 406 as a two-and-a-half-story double house of red pressed brick on a schist foundation, with a gabled front section, paired dormers and two entrance porches. Small brick garages were added to its north and south sides in 1931. The Landmarks Preservation Commission classes the style as Romanesque Revival.

    “…two-and-one-half story double house faced with red pressed brick and set on a foundation of schist…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1900

    Ocean spray earns the officers' row the nickname Hurricane Row

    Regimental Row, which includes Building 406, went up between 1893 and 1917 right at what was then the island's waterline. As erosion wore the shore back, harbor spray began reaching the houses, and by the early twentieth century people called the row Hurricane Row. The report calls them large brick houses of one general design, mixing Romanesque Revival and Colonial Revival features, each with a front porch.

    “These houses came to be called Hurricane Row, in reference to the ocean spray that began to reach them due to erosion of the island's shore.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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