Fort Totten Officers' Club
- Year
- 1870
- Style
- Gothic Revival
- City
- Queens, NY
The Fort Totten Officers' Club, known as the Castle, is a clubhouse built at Fort Totten in the 1870s and expanded to its present size in 1887. Raised as a Late Gothic Revival building for the fort's officers, it now houses the Bayside Historical Society, which uses the space to interpret the building's own history alongside that of Bayside and Queens.
the building
Towers and frame. The Castle is a two-story, rectangular frame building sheathed in clapboard, with a projecting central tower pavilion and identical polygonal, three-story towers flanking it. A wood parapet runs around the roofline, giving the otherwise simple frame structure a fortress-like silhouette.
the style
Built in the Late Gothic Revival style, the Castle takes its nickname from the picturesque massing that style allowed: paired towers, a projecting pavilion, and a crenellated parapet dressed up what was, underneath, a wood-frame officers' club.
More on Gothic Revivalsignificance
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. It now serves as the home of the Bayside Historical Society.
nearby
- Cornelius Van Wyck House
- Flushing High School
- John Bowne House
- RKO Keith's Theater
- St. George's Church
- Cornell Farmhouse