Fort Des Moines Historic Complex, Building No. 86, Des Moines, Polk County, IA
Summary
Significance: This stable barn likewise followed standardized plan 139 of the Quartermaster General. It stood on Thayer Street and was completed on September 29, 1903, making it the oldest of all the existing stables and one of the earliest structures built at Fort Des Moines. It cost $15,660.00 to erect and consisted of brick walls raised in running bond on a limestone foundation and topped with a gabled slate roof, along the ridge of which ran a monitor. The monitor contained paired 9-light windows and paired louvered ventilators and had sides covered with slate. The building measured 67 feet wide by 165 feet long and could hold ninety animals. Each end had a double sliding door plus five double hung windows. Each side had a door, two double hung windows located towards the front, and thirteen single sash windows running along its length. (Sometime after 1940 the single sash windows were lengthened into six-over-six-light double hung windows.) All windows had 3-course segmental arches and plain lug sills of limestone.
Survey number: HABS IA-121-U
Building/structure dates: 1903 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1911 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1940 Subsequent Work
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74000805
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