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Item Title
Benicia Arsenal, Benicia Industrial Park, Benicia, Solano County, CA
LocationBenicia Industrial Park,
Benicia, CA
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS CA-1773
Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (FN-139).
Building/structure dates:
1850 initial construction
Significance: The Benicia Arsenal was established in 1851. By the end of the 1850's the first permanent buildings had been erected including the hospital, two powder magazines and the "camel barns." Although the base was closed in 1964 and the area is now an industrial park, most of the structures remain. They form one of the most impressive ensembles of military architecture in the western United States.
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. BARRACKS
2. OLD OFFICE
3. NORTH STOREHOUSE
4. SOUTH STOREHOUSE
5. Photocopy of map (from National Archives, Cartographic Division, Record Group 77, Dr. 124, sht. 19-1) 'Drawn and sketched by Robt. Redmayne' February 20th, 1856 'A MAP OF THE U.S. MILITARY RESERVE AT BENICIA CAL.'
6. Photocopy of map (from National Archives, Cartographic Division, Record Group 77) Delineator unknown 1863 'MAP OF THE U.S. MILITARY RESERVE AT BENICIA CAL'
7. Photocopy of map (from National Archives, Cartographic Division, Record Group 156, Folder 3) 'Surveyed and Drawn by Hugo Hochholzer' 1868 'TOPOGRAPHICAL MAP OF THE U.S. MILITARY RESERVE AT BENICIA CAL.'
8. Photocopy of drawing (from California State Library) 'Drawn from Nature by Hugo Hochholzer,' ca. 1860s 'VIEW OF BENICIA ARSENAL GROUNDS LOOKING S.E.'
9. Photocopy of lithograph (from Historical Atlas of Solano County, p. 25) H. Strauss, delineator published 1878 'U.S. ARSENAL, BENICIA, CAL.' VIEW FROM SOUTHWEST
10. Photocopy of map (from Benicia Historical Society) Delineator unknown May 1, 1894, revised to Mar. 27, 1918 'MAP OF BENICIA ARSENAL RESERVATION'
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