![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the center of the opposite side stood a 34-foot square, 97-foot high tower. The portico, 14 by 60 feet, extended from one of the long sides. The main building was 180 by 60 feet, three stories high, in addition to a full basement and attic. Plans called for a brick or stone building suggestive of the classical Greek revival architecture popular among public buildings at the time. Major Kingsbury brought with him plans for Storehouse A which had been designed and drawn up in Washington, D.C., at Ordnance Department Headquarters, and which were identical to plans for the buildings at Columbus and Indianapolis. A Board of Officers had selected the site, 300 feet from old Fort Armstrong, and the Chief of Ordnance had determined that the building material be Le Claire limestone, a buff-colored dolomite, from a quarry fourteen miles upriver from the Island. Army Ordnance Department had already done much of the planning. On August 13, 1863, the first commander of the new arsenal, Major Charles Kingsbury, arrived to superintend construction of the storehouse. ![]()
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