Sketch of the Arsenal grounds, c. 1862

Sketch of the Arsenal grounds, c. 1862

Item Information

Title:
Sketch of the Arsenal grounds, c. 1862
Creator:
U.S. Army Materials and Mechanics Research Center. Public Affairs Office
Date:
[ca. 1977]
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
Photographic prints
Location:
National Archives at Boston
Box: 12. Folder: Prints & Negatives, 1977 History (Dobbs) (shelf locator)
Collection (local):
Record Group 338: Records of U.S. Army Operational, Tactical, and Support Organizations (World War II and Thereafter), 1917 - 1999
Series:
Photographs Related to the Watertown Arsenal, 1908-1984
Subjects:
Armories
Architectural drawings
Watertown Arsenal (Mass.)
Places:
Massachusetts > Middlesex (county) > Watertown
Extent:
1 photograph : print ; sheet 20 x 25 cm
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Terms of Use:
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Notes:
Title from item.
Additional text from item: Sketch made of Arsenal by Lieut. J. P. Farley, Ord. Dept., in 1862, shows the Arsenal as it was near the end of the Civil War. The buildings forming the Quadrangle in the foreground are those shown in photos #1-6, both inclusive, and the remporary smith shop, built and used furing the Civil War, north of the North Store House. At the southeast corner is the double frame non-commissioned officer's quarters, bldg. 123. The next building is the sound laboratory erected in 1842 and razed in 1917. The U shaped building with smoke stack at its west end is the laboratory erected in 1862 for making small arms cartridges, moved in 1871 to the east end of the reservation for storehouse for gun carriages, separated with 3 parts and moved about 1911 and made with one lumber storage, bldg. 231, in 1917. The following brick buildings: stable (911), west timber shed, bldg 37, carriage and machine shop, bldg 313-294, and smith shop, bldg 43-422, were built in 1847 to 1862. The large two-story east timber shed, bldg 51, was erected in 1847, and northerly from it is a wooden building that was burned in 1898. This view shows very few buildings adjacent to the arsenal.
Notes (date):
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Accession #:
2658417
Identifier:
19-066-340/AMC-75