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FORT MONROE HISTORIC PRESERVATION DESIGN STANDARDS RESOURCE INVENTORY 4C.71

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Building 44

PRESERVATION CONSIDERATIONS

The exterior of Building 44 has kept most of its original materials and appearance. It retains the five-course American bond brick walls, with masonry openings articulated with jack arches and cast stone sills. Brick entry porches, which feature molded cornice and entablature, Colonial Revival balustrade, and brick support columns and pilasters with cast stone capitals and bases, are important façade elements. The sleeping porches, featuring casement windows, pilasters with precast caps, and hipped slate roof and entablature, are another important element to preserve. Other significant exterior elements include original six-over-six double-hung sash windows, paneled doors with four-light transoms, and hipped-roof dormers with slate cheek walls. Important interior elements include original casings and moldings, fireplace mantels, stairs, and wood flooring.

The relationship of Building 44 to the series complex that it is grouped within, and the association of the complex with the Ingalls streetscape, is significant in this historic village area.

LANDSCAPE AND SITE FEATURES

Building 44 has a front yard with several mature trees and is identical with the front yards of other duplicated buildings. Building 44, with building 43 and 45, forms a back yard. Its position in the series complex is symmetrical to Building 54. These are important elements to preserve. The tree type is important for keeping a consistent landscape view for Ingalls Road. The maintenance of the façade is important, not only to the building itself, but the Ingalls Road streetscape.

LOCATION 102-108 Ingalls Road

Fort MonroeHampton, Va.

MANAGEMENT ZONE Zone D - McNair, Ingalls, Fenwick

Corridor

CL ASSIFICATION Contributing Structure

CONDITION Good

7

8

C D

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DESCRIPTION

Located outside the boundaries of the original historic fort, Building 45 faces northwest and is part of a small complex of buildings overlooking Hampton Roads Harbor. The building is a massive two-and-one-half story brick masonry quadriplex with concrete foundation, slate gable roof, and two-story sleeping porches terminating the façade. Exterior walls are constructed with concrete masonry and brick veneer laid in five-course American bond. Two single-story brick entry porches have molded cornice and entablature, and each is surmounted with a Colonial Revival balustrade. Brick support columns and pilasters have cast stone capitals and bases. Entry doors are paneled single leaf with four-light transom, defined by jack arches. Window openings are articulated with jack arches and cast stone sills. Windows are six-over-six double-hung sash. Sleeping porches feature casement windows, pilasters with precast caps, hipped slate roof and entablature. Pilasters are flush with the wall surface because of the 1930s modification. Hipped dormers feature slate cheek walls and six-over-six double-hung sash. The building has a central chimney. At the interior, casings and moldings, fireplace mantels, stairs, and wood flooring are original. Building 45 is identical to Buildings 33-35, 43, 44, 51, 52, and 54.

DATE OF CONSTRUC TION1930

ARCHITEC TUR AL ST YLEColonial Revival

HEIGHT AND AREATwo and one-half stories;10,837 square feet

USE (ORIGINAL / CURRENT )Multi-unit Residence / Multi-unit Resi-dence

HISTORICAL DATA

This building was built in 1930 as part of a nationwide Army building program initiated in 1927 to upgrade living conditions for officers, NCO’s and enlisted men. The program was im-plemented during the 1930s using funds from the Army, the Works Progress Administration (WPA), and the Public Works Administration (PWA). It was built from Quartermaster General Standardized Plan No. 625-808 to house Coast Artillery School Officer-grade students, their families, and household staff. The porches were altered sometime after 1934 – sash windows were replaced with casement windows, and paneling between floors was filled in with brick. This house is part of a planned complex of buildings, and contributes to the overall character and appearance of the Ingalls Road streetscape.

STUDENT APARTMENTS Family Housing - NCO


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Building 45

LOCATION 110-116 Ingalls Road


MANAGEMENT ZONE Zone D - McNair, Ingalls, Fenwick

Corridor


CONDITION Good

7

8

C D


The exterior of Building 45 has kept most of its original materials and appearance. It retains the five-course American bond brick walls with masonry openings articulated with jack arches and cast stone sills. Brick entry porches, which feature molded cornice and entablature, Colonial Revival balustrade, and brick support columns and pilasters with cast stone capitals and bases, are important façade elements. Sleeping porches, featuring casement windows, pilasters with precast caps, and hipped slate roof and entablature, are another important element to preserve. Other significant exterior elements include original six-over-six double-hung sash windows, paneled doors with four-light transoms, and hipped-roof dormers with slate cheek walls. Important interior elements to preserve include original casings and moldings, fireplace mantels, stairs, and wood flooring.

The relationship of Building 45 to the series complex that it is grouped within, and the association of the complex with the Ingalls streetscape, is significant in this historic village area.

LANDSCAPE AND SITE FEATURES

Building 45 has a front yard with several mature trees, which is identical with the front yards of other duplicated buildings. Building 45, with build-ings 51 and 52, forms a symmetrical courtyard with enormous landscape and geometrically designed tracks. These should be preserves. The tree type is important for keeping a consistent landscape view for Ingalls Road.


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DESCRIPTION

Located within the boundaries of the original historic fort, Building 46 is a rectangular, one-story brick building with beveled brick water table and asphalt-shingled hipped roof. It has boxed cornice sitting on a string course. Walls of this storage building are laid in five-course American bond. The entry door is a five paneled single leaf with transom, which looks original, defined by a jack arch and stone threshold. Windows are three-over-three sash, defined by camber arches and painted stone sills. Masonry walls have been disfigured by tape grout.


ARCHITEC TUR AL ST YLEVernacular

HEIGHT AND AREAOne story;860 square feet

USE (ORIGINAL / CURRENT )Latrine / General Storehouse

HISTORICAL DATA

This building was constructed in 1901 as one of two latrines for the barracks behind which it stands. It was used as a mechanic’s shop, circa 1940, and it is currently a general storehouse. It is one of the few buildings at Fort Monroe that has vented soffits. Building 46 was essentially an afterthought, as the adjacent barracks were built without lavatories.

GENERAL STOREHOUSE


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Building 46

LOCATION Off Bernard Road Road


MANAGEMENT ZONE Zone E - Stone Fort and Moat


CONDITIONFair

ExperimentalBattery

5

4

F G


A number of exterior features have remained to contribute to the build-ing’s architectural character. The five-course American bond brick walls with beveled brick water table and the hipped roof with boxed cornice are original. The original openings defined by jack arches and stone sills/thresholds are important to preserve. The three-over-three sash window configuration is important to preserve.

This building shares similar design characteristics with many other on post, and complements the surrounding buildings. This should be respected.


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DESCRIPTION

Located within the boundaries of the original historic fort, Building 47 is a rectangular, one-story brick building with beveled brick water table and asphalt-shingled hipped roof. It has boxed cornice with wide overhanging eaves sitting on a string course. Walls of this storage building are laid in five-course American bond, with a low brick water table. Windows are three-over-three fixed sash windows, and openings are defined by jack arches and painted stone sills. A majority of the windows have been bricked over or infilled with wood shingles; and masonry walls have been disfigured by tape grout. Doors have been replaced or infilled with wood shingles. The building’s interior has been completely modernized, with new fixtures and plumbing.



HEIGHT AND AREAOne story;1,186 square feet

USE (ORIGINAL / CURRENT )Latrine / Mechanic’s Shop / Storage

HISTORICAL DATA

This building was constructed in 1901 as one of three bath houses for the barracks behind which it stands. Building 47 was essentially an afterthought, as the adjacent barracks were built without bath facilities of any kind. In 1938, this building was converted into a mechanic’s shop, and now it is used for storage.

ADMINISTRATION General Purpose


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Building 47

LOCATION Off Gratiot Lane




CONDITION Fair

8-A3

2

FE


Many original openings have been infilled or replaced, but most of the exterior is intact. It retains the five-course American bond brick walls with beveled brick water table, and the hipped roof with boxed cornice with wide overhanging eaves sitting on a string course. The openings de-fined by jack arches and painted stone sills/ thresholds are original and important to preserve. The three-over-three double-hung sash window configuration is important to preserve.

This building shares similar design characteristics with many others on post, and complements the surrounding buildings. This should be respected.


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DESCRIPTION

The Main Gate is located along the western boundary of the original historic fort. It is rectangular in plan, with a three-bay pilastered façade and flat roof, featuring molded cornice and paneled parapet wall. Walls are built with limestone blocks, laid in running bond, which have rustic joints emphasized by the recessed edges of adjacent stones. The gate presents a starkly formal triumphal arch with incised voussoirs. A bronze shield marks the keystone. The gateway wall is finished with granite blocks in random ashlar pattern. Arched recesses lining the gate’s vaulted stucco interior served as sentry posts. The eastern elevation (in-side the original fort) also features rusticated stone masonry, as well as some brick infill laid in Flemish bond. A small, understated, pedestrian passage (an alteration to the historic configuration) penetrates the fort wall immediately north of the Main Gate, and a secondary vaulted entry into the adjacent casemate opens from the pedestrian passage.

DATE OF CONSTRUC TIONca. 1823

ARCHITEC TUR AL ST YLEBeaux Arts

HEIGHT AND AREAOne story;2,736 square feet

USE (ORIGINAL / CURRENT )Guardhouse, Stockade / Storage

HISTORICAL DATA

Built in 1823 as the Main Gate, guard house and stockade casemates, Building 48 was designed by French military engineer General Simon Bernard. He based the design of the brick and stone masonry structure on French principles of defense structures. The building currently is used for vehicular access to the fort and for storage. In 1937, one casemate was altered to accommodate pedestrian passage. Porches were removed sometime between 1945 and 1948. Building 48’s heavily rusticated Moat façade has been a symbol of Fort Monroe since its construction.

STORAGE CASEMATES Old Guardhouse Casemates


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Building 48

LOCATION Sally Port, Bernard Road


MANAGEMENT ZONE Individually Eligible Historic Properties


CONDITION Good

8-A3

2

FE


As the main gate of historic Inner Fort, Building 48 retains its original materials and appearance. The original stone masonry structure with paneled parapet and three-bay pilastered façade, and the triumphal arch with incised voussoirs are significant features to preserve. The limestone blocks with rustic joints are a significant exterior masonry detail. The gateway featuring stucco vault and arched recesses is important to preserve.

The relationship and association of Building 48 with the series of structures comprising the fort’s interior and exterior walls, gates, and casemates (the interior rooms), and the surrounding Moat are arguably the most important of Fort Monroe’s cultural resources due to its archi-tectural and historical significance. Additionally, Building 48 is unique at Fort Monroe in terms of its architectural style.


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DESCRIPTION

Located within the boundaries of the original historic fort, Building 49 is a rectangular, single-story brick building with asphalt-shingled hipped roof. The ell has a single low-pitched roof extended from the main roof, same material. Walls of this storage building are laid in five-course American bond. Original doors have been replaced with paneled doors. The en-trance opening is defined by heavy jack arches and stone threshold, and a two-step concrete stair. The windows are six-over-six light double-hung sash, defined by heavy jack arches and painted stone sills. Brick walls have been disfigured by tape grout. Building 49 retains a wooden canopy, or hood, at its entry supported by sawn brackets. On the interior, period light fixtures and beaded tongue-and-groove trim remain. The interior of the main portion of the building was paneled in recent years.



HEIGHT AND AREAOne story;561 square feet

USE (ORIGINAL / CURRENT )Coast Artillery Radio Station / Offices

HISTORICAL DATA

This building was built in 1909 and was used by the Coast Artillery School as a wireless (radio) station at least as early as 1915. Records from the 1930s reveal that the building had a slate roof at that time. The bathroom was remod-eled in 1944, and the ell on the east side was added in 1959. This building has a connection with the Coast Artillery School, and contrib-utes to the architectural character inside the fort.

ADMINISTRATION General Purpose (Wireless Station)


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Building 49

LOCATION Off Bernard RoadFort Monroe

Hampton, Va.



CONDITION Good

5

6

F G


While Building 49 has undergone many alterations over the years, many historical features remain. It retains the five-course American bond brick walls with original openings defined by heavy jack arches and stone sills/thresholds. The original wood canopy supported by sawn brackets is an important element to preserve. The interior of the building has kept the historic lighting fixture and the beaded tongue-and-groove interior trim. These are important features to be preserved.


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LOCATION 121-129 Bernard Road




CONDITION Good

OFFICERS QUARTERS (Quarters 50), Building 50 (A, B, C)

DESCRIPTION

Building 50 is an amalgam of interconnected buildings. To the north is a side gabled volume facing the Parade Ground (A). Immediately to the south is a hipped roof section that is parallel to the first and slightly offset (B). It is connected by a one-story hyphen to a two-story, hipped-roof rear portion (C). Sections A and B have asphalt shingled roofs and the hyphen and C have standing seam metal roofs. All sections are brick painted white.

Section A has a full-width, two-story porch with Doric columns and a picketed balustrade, which wraps along the east elevation and as a one-story porch along the west elevation. The porch rests on brick piers and has granite entrance steps with iron railing and an iron boot scrape. Predominant window type is six-over-six sash

Section B is a relatively simple mass, and it is unclear as to whether its entrance is through section A or the hyphen. It has a projecting two-story, three-sided bay to the south, which has the predominant six-over-six win-dows in the central bay and four-over-four in the flanking bays. The hyphen is three bays connecting B and C and has entrances on both the east and west elevations.

Section C is a four-bay, two-story volume. It has a gallery porch on the second story of the east elevation accessed by an exterior stair, with alter-nating entrances and windows along the elevation on both stories. The south elevation of C has three evenly space six-over-six windows on the second story and two six-over-six windows at different heights flanking two fixed, two-light windows on the first. Section C’s west elevation has a single-leaf entrance on the first floor, offset and flanked by two six-over-six windows, with two evenly spaced six-over-six windows above.

Between B and C, to the west of the hyphen, is a bulkheaded basement entrance.


ARCHITEC TUR AL ST YLEFederal

HEIGHT AND AREATwo stories;10,882 square feet

USE (ORIGINAL / CURRENT )Housing / Multi-family Housing

HISTORICAL DATA

Built in 1834, Building 50 is now a triple set of quarters, with a T-shape floor plan. The stem of the T, now 50C, was once a separate building, and there is a strong possibility that it may be one of the original “Engineer Office Buildings” shown on the 1826 map of Fort Monroe. The 1826 map does not show what is now called 50 A/B on the site. However, an 1839 map does show what is known as 50 A/B essentially as it stands today. By 1887, all three buildings were joined by a long double hall. A 1902 floor plan shows 50C divided in half, with numerous alterations to room arrangements and stair directions. The interior of Building 50 A, B, and C has been altered considerably.


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Building 50


• Five-course American bond brick veneer

• Window openings defined by painted jack arches and brick sills

• Two-story porch with Roman Doric columns, wrought-iron railings, and a wrought-iron boot scrape

LOCATION 121-129 Bernard Road




CONDITION Good

ExperimentalBattery

4

3

F G


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