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Item Title
Benicia Arsenal, Guard & Engine House, Benicia, Solano County, CA
LocationGuard & Engine House,
Benicia, CA
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS CA-1832
Building/structure dates:
1872 initial construction
Building/structure dates:
1900 subsequent work
Significance: This building, a very good example of nineteenth-century military architecture, solves in a deft way the problem of coupling two different functions into a compact structure, by placing the guard house in front of the larger shed-like engine room.
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. EAST SIDE AND NORTH FRONT
2. NORTH FRONT AND WEST SIDE
3. DETAIL, NORTH FRONT DOORWAY
4. DETAIL, EAST SIDE DOORWAY
5. Photocopy of photograph (from Benicia Arsenal) U.S. Army Photographer ca. 1915 NORTH FRONT AND WEST SIDE
6. Photocopy of original plans (from National Archives, Cartographic Division, Record Group 156) Delineator unknown. Commanding Officer's signature dated May 22, 1871 PLAN, ELEVATION, AND SECTION
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