Historic Structure Documentation for Battery Richmond, Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, New York, Documentation for the Historic American Engineering Record
The Cultural Resource Group Louis Berger & Associates, Inc.. 1990. Historic Structure Documentation for Battery Richmond, Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, New York, Documentation for the Historic American Engineering Record. Naval Facilities Engineering Command Northern Division. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The subject of this documentation is a seacoast gun battery located at Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, New York. Fort Wadsworth is a former U.S. Army installation now under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Navy. Fort Wadsworth is situated on the southeast side of Staten Island, at the south end of Bay Avenue. The western anchorage and Interstate-287 approach of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge are located on the installation, creating a visual, although not physical, boundary between the northern and southern areas of the post. Also scattered throughout this area are more former seacoast defensive works, abandoned since at least World War II and now heavily wooded. Just below the New York Avenue-Richmond Avenue intersection are four batteries, extended in a line from northeast to southwest. Battery Richmond is the third in the line, situated between Battery Barry and Battery Ayers. It faces toward New York Bay. Battery Richmond is one of 12 batteries constructed at Fort Wadsworth between 1895 and 1904, during what is known as the Endicott program of United States coastal defense. It was constructed in 1898-1899 by hire labor working under supervision of the New York District Office of the U.S. Army Engineers, and upon completion was turned over to the Coast Artillery Corps.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- The Cultural Resource Group Louis Berger & Associates, Inc.
- Date of Issue
- 1990-01
- Publisher
- Naval Facilities Engineering Command Northern Division
- Units
- GATE , NER
- Keywords
- Batteries, Endicott Program, Engineering, Fort Wadsworth (NY), Harbor Defense, History, Military, New York, Reconstruction, Seacoast, Staten Island (NY)