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This #FortRileyFriday we continue our look at the buildings around Cavalry Parade Field built around the turn of the 20th century.
Building 216 Custer Avenue opened in in 1905 as a guard house. At some point during the next 40 years it was repurposed and became the post's confinement facility. The building was closed in 1995 and remained shuttered until an extensive renovation began in 2010. It would become a state-of-the-art judicial center and the new home of the Staff Judge Advocate. The building was renovated with new offices and courtrooms while maintaining some of its historic elements. Pressed, decorative tin ceilings were refurbished and reinstalled, and some of the iron bars over interior windows of former holding cells were repaired and retained. One of the more unique features of the building that survived the renovation is an open grate in the floor of the main hallway near the front door that allowed guards to look into the basement cells below.
In 2012, building 216 received The Kansas Preservation Alliance Preservation Stewardship Award For Excellence in Rehabilitation.
Pictured (clockwise from upper left:) Building 216 in 1909 and present day, courtroom during renovation and finished, grate in main hallway, pressed tin ceiling before and after renovation.
| Date Taken: | 02.01.2019 |
| Date Posted: | 10.26.2023 15:19 |
| Photo ID: | 8090594 |
| VIRIN: | 190201-A-YH536-1001 |
| Resolution: | 526x526 |
| Size: | 64.99 KB |
| Location: | FORT RILEY, KANSAS, US |
| Web Views: | 18 |
| Downloads: | 1 |
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