Historic Structures Report, Part II: HB-46, Post Hospital
1966. Historic Structures Report, Part II: HB-46, Post Hospital. Historic Structure Report. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
This report concerns the Post Hospital (HB-46) of the Fort Davis National Memorial. In operation from 1854-1891, Fort Davis serves as one of the greatest examples of a typical frontier military outpost of the U.S. military in the 19th century. The history of HB-46 is inseparably linked with several other buildings. Its contemporary outbuildings served secondary needs and formed the hospital complex. More important were two earlier hospitals that were, by combination of their strengths and weaknesses, the parent structures of HB-46. These were a temporary hospital, whose shortcomings gave painful illustration of the need for a new building, and a large never-completed stone hospital, which contributed its material for the foundation of HB-46. This report suggests that the Officers Quarters and its outbuilding are to be given modified restoration as part of the historic scene. Walls are to be reconstructed where, and to the extent, necessary to support a new roof and to arrest deterioration. Adobe preservation techniques will be applied and authentic roofs and porches constructed. This will accomplish the dual purpose of preserving the original material and creating an effect similar to the historic period.
- Type
- Published Report
- Date of Issue
- 1966
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
- Units
- FODA , IMR
- Keywords
- adobe, fort, frontier, military, sheet metal, stone, wood
- Subjects
- CRIS-HS: 060083: Hospital (060083)