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Title:	Fort Knox Hammerhead Barracks architectural survey
Authors:	Stone, Sunny Smith, Adam D.
Keywords:	Fort Knox (Ky.) Historic preservation Historic building inventory National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) Cultural resources management
Publisher:	Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.)
Series/Report no.:	Special Report (Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (U.S.)) ; no. ERDC/CERL SR-05-15
Abstract:	U.S. Army Garrison Fort Knox (Fort Knox) is a U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command installation with the primary mission of training soldiers for the Armor and Cavalry Force. It is the home to the U.S. Amy Armor School and Center where soldiers are trained to use, maintain, and command tanks and other armored vehicles. This document is an architectural survey of 53 permanent Cold War Base Operations (BASOPS) properties, more specifically, unaccompanied personnel housing (UPH) permanent hammerhead barracks and supporting facilities, constructed between 1953 and 1957 at Fo11 Knox, Kentucky for eligibility to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). One building on the list, a battalion headquarters, constructed in 1964, and two general instruction buildings, constructed in 1967, fall outside of the period being surveyed, and were included in the survey for their role as support facilities for the UPH structures. This survey satisfies Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 as amended, and was used to determine the eligibility of these buildings and landscapes for inclusion on the NRHP. The BASOPS properties, mostly UPH buildings, constructed during this time frame at Fort Knox were limited in use as support facilities only, and were not mission critical buildings. It was determined that these buildings are strictly utilitarian in nature. The UPH buildings included in this survey were evaluated under a recently completed historic context, "Army Unaccompanied Personnel Housing 1946-1989." This nationwide historic context and evaluation criteria for these buildings is organized by building type and lists specific architectural requirements for finding these buildings eligible. The lack or loss of these required features can result in insufficient integrity for specific examples of these buildings types to be considered eligible. The UPH structures at Fort Knox are significant under Criterion A as associated with this historic context. However, the buildings that were surveyed lack the retention of the required features to retain sufficient integrity and therefore are ineligible for the NRHP.
Description:	Special Report
Gov't Doc #:	ERDC/CERL SR-05-15
Rights:	Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/11681/47463
Appears in Collections:	Special Report