Post Hospital

515 Governors Island | also 515 Wheeler Avenue, 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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1928
The 'Island Beautiful' building campaign of 1928 produces the Post Hospital among permanent new buildings
A building campaign began on Governors Island in 1928 under an 'Island Beautiful' plan to clear away dilapidated corrugated-iron storehouses and replace temporary World War I structures. Thirteen permanent buildings in the district date from this period, including the hospital at Building 515. Most were in the neo-Georgian style, then popular on military bases, and many stand on landfill beside the original shoreline.
“Buildings 12, 111, 112, 114, 301, 315, 324, 330, 333, 400, 515, 550, and 555 were built within the historic district during this period…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1935
Neo-Georgian Post Hospital is built from the office of McKim, Mead & White
The Army's Post Hospital, Building 515, was finished in 1935 to designs from the office of McKim, Mead & White, with the Quartermaster General's construction division. Its corridors run around two interior courts, which gave patients light, air and cross-ventilation. It belonged to the island plan the firm proposed in 1928. In the late 1980s it was converted to housing for enlisted bachelors.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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