Historic Structure Assessment Report: Fort Hancock, Laundry and Tailor Shop (Bldg. 77)
Architectural Conservation Center. 1990. Historic Structure Assessment Report: Fort Hancock, Laundry and Tailor Shop (Bldg. 77). 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 Laundry and Tailor Shop (Bldg. 77) at Fort Hancock, providing photographs, floor plans, statements of deficiency, and preservation recommendations. Building #77 was built in 1910 as the Post Exchange Laundry. At an unknown date prior to 1938, the building was abandoned as a laundry facility and used as a garage with a tailor shop occupying the smaller room on the north end. Building #77 is built of poured concrete with a wood truss roof. This construction type is atypical of Sandy Hook. The roof is a low hipped roof.
- 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
- fort, Fort Hancock, laundry, military, poured concrete, tailor, World War I, World War II
- Subjects
- CRIS-HS: 008494: Fort Hancock-Post Laundry 77