Historic Structures Report, Part I: Non-Commissioned Officers' Staff Quarters (Bldg. 146)
Sheire JW. 1968. Historic Structures Report, Part I: Non-Commissioned Officers' Staff Quarters (Bldg. 146). Historic Structure Report. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
Originally established as a private fur trading fort in 1834, Fort Laramie evolved into the largest and best known military post on the Northern Plains before its abandonment in 1890. This “grand old post” witnessed the entire sweeping saga of America’s western expansion and Indian resistance to encroachment on their territories. This historic structure report concerns the Non-Commissioned Officers' Staff Quarters (building no. 146) at Fort Laramie. Constructed in 1884, the Quarters housed members of the NCO staff until Fort Laramie was abandoned in 1890. The structure is proposed to be used as a part of the historic landscape of the fort, as a ruin, and as an interpretive stop on the fort trial. The report proposes that the existing ruins are to be stabilized in their present conditions. The most modern methods for preserving the lime grout remains are to be used, complementing any previous stabilization attempts.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Sheire, James
- Date of Issue
- 1968-01
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
- Units
- FOLA , IMR
- Keywords
- Cheyenne, fort, frontier, Indian Wars, military, non-commissioned officers, quarters, ruins, Sioux, stabilization, Utah
- Subjects
- CRIS-HS: 000341: Married NCO Quarters Ruin