Fort Totten Building 420
420A Weaver Avenue | also 420B Weaver Avenue, 427 Whistler Avenue, 423 Abbott Road | Fort Totten
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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 builds Building 420 as a double house for captains facing the parade ground
Building 420 went up in 1906 as a twin dwelling for captains, built to the Quartermaster General's standard plan 142-A on the north side of the parade ground, where it replaced an earlier wooden house. It was one of four such houses, with Buildings 400, 413 and 418, and the same plan was used for Building 404 on Governors Island. Each house in the group was meant to hold four officers' apartments, but all were changed during construction to hold only two.
“Building 420 was constructed in 1906 as a twin dwelling for captains.”
- 1925
Captains' double house is split into four officers' apartments
In 1925 the inside of Building 420 was reworked to create four units, the number of apartments its plan had first called for. The two-and-a-half-story red pressed-brick house stayed in use as housing for Army officers at Fort Totten until 1995.
- 1999
Landmarks report lists the former officers' house among buildings bound for the Fire Department
When the Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Fort Totten Historic District in June 1999, much of the old Army post was due to be handed over to the city. Building 420, along with neighbors such as Buildings 400, 418 and 421, was on the list of structures slated to come under the jurisdiction of the New York City Fire Department.
“416, 417, 418, 419, 420, and 421 will be under the jurisdiction of the Fire Department.”
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