Historic Structure Assessment Report: Fort Hancock, Post Office (Bldg. 41)
Architectural Conservation Center. 1990. Historic Structure Assessment Report: Fort Hancock, Post Office (Bldg. 41). Historic Structure Report. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Douglasville, Georgia
Fort Hancock is part of the Sandy Hook Unit of the Gateway National Recreation Area. On the entire peninsula of Sandy Hook, there are approximately 300 structures reflecting Light House Board, Lifesaving Service, and United States Army activity from 1764 through the 1970s. These structures are of varying levels of historic and architectural significance. This Historic Structure Assessment Report surveys the Post Office (Bldg. 41) at Fort Hancock, providing photographs, floor plans, statements of deficiency, and preservation recommendations. Building #41 was built in 1941. It is a one-story wood frame building with asbestos cement shingles on the outside. There is a porch on the south side and other entrances on north and east sides.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Architectural Conservation Center
- Date of Issue
- 1990
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
- Units
- GATE , NER
- Keywords
- asbestos, fort, Fort Hancock, military, post, Post Office, World War I, World War II
- Subjects
- CRIS-HS: 008466: Fort Hancock-Post Office 41