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Archival and Photographic Study of World War II Temporary Wooden Buildings, Fort Carson Military Reservation, Colorado
Temporary wooden buildings were erected on Camp Carson (now Fort Carson Military Reservation) in 1942 to mobilize 35,000 troops and material resources for World War II. The installation was built on the former Cheyenne Valley Ranch; one of the original ranch buildings, the Corley House, survives and is partially documented here. Of the 2,000+ temporary buildings constructed, 218 are documented archivally and photographically by the study, in accordance with a Programmatic Memorandum of Agreement among the Department of Defense, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, and the National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers. The study includes those structures built in 1942 (204 buildings), 1943 (13), and 1946 (1). These buildings are divided into six major categories and 67 types, the most common of which is the barrack. Mess halls and combination storehouse/recreation buildings figure prominently in the remaining buildings. Management recommendations include full recording of the Corley House; complete documentation of T3549 (Francis Loop Chapel); history of possibly the first building on post (T6140); narrative of nearly intact administrative unit (T2000s) to place buildings in original context; and coordination of the study with the nationwide assessment of temporary buildings by the U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory.
Archival and Photographic Study of World War II Temporary Wooden Buildings, Fort Carson Military Reservation, Colorado
Temporary wooden buildings were erected on Camp Carson (now Fort Carson Military Reservation) in 1942 to mobilize 35,000 troops and material resources for World War II. The installation was built on the former Cheyenne Valley Ranch; one of the original ranch buildings, the Corley House, survives and is partially documented here. Of the 2,000+ temporary buildings constructed, 218 are documented archivally and photographically by the study, in accordance with a Programmatic Memorandum of Agreement among the Department of Defense, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, and the National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers. The study includes those structures built in 1942 (204 buildings), 1943 (13), and 1946 (1). These buildings are divided into six major categories and 67 types, the most common of which is the barrack. Mess halls and combination storehouse/recreation buildings figure prominently in the remaining buildings. Management recommendations include full recording of the Corley House; complete documentation of T3549 (Francis Loop Chapel); history of possibly the first building on post (T6140); narrative of nearly intact administrative unit (T2000s) to place buildings in original context; and coordination of the study with the nationwide assessment of temporary buildings by the U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory.
Archival and Photographic Study of World War II Temporary Wooden Buildings, Fort Carson Military Reservation, Colorado
A. M. Barnes (author)
1991
373 pages
Report
No indication
English
Education, Law, & Humanities , Logistics Military Facilities & Supplies , Archaeology , Historic preservation , Wooden structures , Colorado , Photographs , Archives , Temporary housing , Buildings , Military facilities , Design criteria , Fort Carson Military Reservation , El Paso County(Colorado) , World War II
Turkey Creek Ranch (5EP836) Fort Carson, Colorado
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