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2ND FLOOR AT TOP OF FRONT STAIRS, LOOKING WEST AND DOWN INTO FRONT ENTRY. - Fort Riley, Building No. 12, 12 Forsythe Avenue, Riley, Riley County, KS
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2ND FLOOR AT TOP OF FRONT STAIRS, LOOKING WEST AND DOWN INTO FRONT ENTRY. - Fort Riley, Building No. 12, 12 Forsythe Avenue, Riley, Riley County, KS
Description
Pond, George E; Zeigler and Dalton Brothers of Junction City; White, E F; Rodriguez, Joseph, field team; Glass, James A, project manager; Crawford, Catherine, transmitter; Whye, Mike, photographer; Crawford, Catherine, historian
Depicted place Kansas; Riley County; Riley
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HABS KANS,81-FORIL,2-D-8
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: Building #12 is representative of the type of officer's quarters built at Fort Riley in 1887. It, and the others like it, mark the beginning of a boom phase in construction and improvement at Fort Riley that resulted from an act of Congress made on January 19, 1887 to establish a school of instruction for cavalry and light artillery. Extensive improvements were planned as Fort Riley was then to become the depot through which all recruits into this branch of the service would come (Pride, p. 193). Fort Riley had been established and the first permanent buildings constructed in the 1850's. With the coming of the Civil War, little construction took place. Construction did not resume, then until this boom phase with the establishment of the school, 1886-1887. Also, Building #12 Forsyth Avenue is one of four identical sets of family officer's quarters built in 1887 on this street (Buildings #7, #8, #11 and #12). They resemble greatly, from the exterior, Buildings #20, #22 and #25 Sheridan Avenue, built the same year. In addition, Buildings #96, #98, #102 and #104 Schofield Circle, built two years later in 1889, used the same plans and differ only slightly in exterior detailing. In general, all the quarters along Forsyth Avenue are duplexes taken from two basic plans and constructed between 1887 and 1903.
  • Survey number: HABS KS-54-D
  • Building/structure dates: 1887 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1937- ca. 1938 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ks0099.photos.070089p
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Object location39° 17′ 56″ N, 96° 49′ 50.02″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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