6. Fort Jay
Location: Governors Island
Built: 1806-1809
Architect: Lt. Col. Jonathan Williams
National Register Number: 74001268
Listed: March 27, 1974
Visited: July 21, 2007
From space, a stolid five-point-star fortification. Up close, its scale is so enormous that the few people on the island can't make the spaces surrounding the non-descript interior barracks feel anything but desolate. It's the middle of the afternoon and yet a walk around the zigzagging moat, now with mowed grass instead of water, is spookily hushed. Only dragonflies pass by.
Built: 1806-1809
Architect: Lt. Col. Jonathan Williams
National Register Number: 74001268
Listed: March 27, 1974
Visited: July 21, 2007
From space, a stolid five-point-star fortification. Up close, its scale is so enormous that the few people on the island can't make the spaces surrounding the non-descript interior barracks feel anything but desolate. It's the middle of the afternoon and yet a walk around the zigzagging moat, now with mowed grass instead of water, is spookily hushed. Only dragonflies pass by.
Labels: Fort, Governors Island, Lt. Col. Jonathan Williams, Military
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