Liggett Hall

Liggett Hall today follows a design from a master plan for Fort Jay that the architectural firm developed for the island post at the request of Secretary of War Elihu Root in 1904.

The overall plan was never executed, but it inspired designs by other architectural firms, whether augmenting the barracks or constructing Works Progress Administration projects in the mid-1930s.

The proposal finally became moot in the late 1920s when federal government aviation regulations required airport runways to be 3000 feet in length, and Floyd Bennett Field was ultimately built in Brooklyn in 1930.

[6] Liggett Hall measures 1,023 feet (312 m) long, oriented on a northwest-southeast axis, and contains two 225-foot (69 m) wings protruding southwestward on each side.

The two others were "The Cuartels," larger than Liggett Hall and built between 1930 and 1939 at Fort Moore, Georgia; and "The Castle," a 1,285-man barracks at McChord Army Airbase constructed in 1940.