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This #FortRileyFriday we continue our look at quarters built around Main Post from the late 1880s to early 1900s. As we showed you last week, Quarters 100, which housed the Artillery Post Commanding Officer, overlooks Artillery Parade Field at the apex of Schofield Circle. The quarters of his subordinate officers (Quarters 85 and 87-99) extend to form a horseshoe configuration around Schofield Circle. These quarters were constructed between 1889 and 1909. (Quarters 86, built in 1909 at the corner of Godfrey and Holbrook Avenues immediately west of Artillery Parade field, was included in this construction cycle.)
The formal layout of the Artillery Post (and similarly the Cavalry Post around Cavalry Parade Field) lent itself to the hierarchical relationships present at a military post. Commanding officer quarters occupied the most prominent locations in residential groupings, surrounded by (in order of rank) field and company officer quarters. At the Artillery Post, officer’s quarters were located on a higher elevation than the barracks further denoting the difference in status.
Pictured: Top - Schofield Circle looking north from Godfrey Ave. on the west side of Artillery Parade Field (APF). Quarters 100 is visible between the trees on the right side of the photo.
Bottom left: Quarters 90. Bottom right: Quarters 96. These represent the two designs used in constructing the quarters around APF.
| Date Taken: | 02.16.2018 |
| Date Posted: | 04.12.2023 11:45 |
| Photo ID: | 7736304 |
| VIRIN: | 180216-A-YH536-001 |
| Resolution: | 526x526 |
| Size: | 56.05 KB |
| Location: | FORT RILEY, KANSAS, US |
| Web Views: | 205 |
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