Building 408, Colonels' Row

408A Governors Island | also 408B Governors Island, 408A Comfort Road, 408B 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.

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1895
Army builds a red-brick Romanesque Revival double house for officers as Building 408
Building 408 is a two-and-a-half-story double house dated 1895 by the Landmarks Preservation Commission and attributed to the Quartermaster General's office. Red pressed brick covers its walls above a rusticated schist base, and its windows are arched with brick lintels. Garages were added at the north and south sides in 1931, and the brick entrance porches were rebuilt in the twentieth century.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1895
Building 408 is one of six brick officers' houses along the island's southwest shore
Building 408 was part of a row of six brick houses facing the southwestern shore of Governors Island, now roughly the line of Hay Road. Standard Quartermaster General plans produced five double sets, Buildings 404 to 408, plus one single-family house, Building 403. Buildings 407 and 408 were the second pair to be finished. Building 408 was later also known as Colonels' Row, or Brick Row.
“Buildings 407 and 408 were the second two houses to be constructed.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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