Carriage House

(c. 1910)

During the Civil War, ships transporting Union and Confederate troops anchored in the Long Island Sound east of Hart Island. A carriage house built in 1910 likely replaced an earlier structure at this location close to the beach, where supplies came ashore and were loaded onto wagons before docks were built on the western shore, closer to the city. A building similar in scale and location appears in an 1865 engraving published in the Illustrated London Times. The building was subsequently used as a morgue to hold disinterred bodies awaiting pick-up by a funeral director or the Medical Examiner.

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