Fort Jackson, Garage, Marion Avenue at Clebune Street, Columbia

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The garage, erected in is the only extant example of fire-proof, brick, garage construction built by the National Guard in South Carolina (Gulf and Hardy, Appendix A). It was part of the first permanent construction program at Camp Jackson. Description: Located on the west side of Marion A venue at the southeast corner of the Parade Ground, Building is a one-story, masonry, 3- x 6-bay, rectangular structure built on a concrete slab foundation (Photograph A driveway connects the north elevation with Marion A venue and continues around the west side of the building to a parking area at its south side. The bricks are laid in a five-course American bond. A modestly decorative brick band is located directly below the corbelled brick cornice (Photograph No. 2).

The front-gable, corrugated-metal roof has a metal vent at the ridge and brick flues and a tall cylindrical vent protruding from its slopes (Photograph The north and south elevations are three bays wide with the center bays containing an industrial type metal and glass door (Photographs -4, and The surrounding bays contain multi-paned, metal, transom windows with brick sills (Photograph A small metal awning has been added to the center of the west window of the north elevation.

This elevation also has a louvered, metal vent in the gable which appears to have been cut into the wall when the heating system was added in the The south elevation, however, retains its original decorative brick oculus (Photograph The east elevation consists of six bays of windows that match those found on the north and south elevations (Photograph The west elevation has a brick, enclosed, side porch which runs the length of the building. It is topped with a corrugated-metal, shed roof.

Attached to the porch at its southwest corner is a small, frame, one-story, shed-roof addition (Photographs and The primary interior space is a large room with a high ceiling (Photographs and Secondary spaces include three, small, storage rooms in the west porch, each with an original fire-proof metal door opening into the main space (Photograph An interior office has been created in the northwest corner of the garage with the installation of concrete-block curtain walls. Other interior details include painted brick walls and the original, exposed, rafters that support the metal roof. The rafters are currently obscured by a drop ceiling. FORT JACKSON, GARAGE (Fort Jackson, Building No .. HABS No. (page 2) The structure has a high degree of architectural integrity.

Alterations to the building are relatively minor and reversible. No original blueprints of the building were located. However, later plans showing the floor plan are included with this document (Photograph History: The history of the Fort can be divided into five developmental phases: Pre-Camp Jackson (to Camp Jackson Post World War I Transition Period the South Carolina National Guard at Camp Jackson and World War II to the Present (Parsons and Home Building was constructed during the fourth period. During World War I, the U.S. government built temporary structures and miles of roads and infrastructure at Camp Jackson, which was one of 16 National Army Cantonments established nationwide to train new recruits.

With the exception of 31 buildings, the roads, and some utilities, all of the camp was demolished during the Post World War I Transition Period. In the U.S. government granted part of Camp Jackson for National Guard training activities. In the Guard began a 16-year building program that included infrastructure and permanent structures. The garage, now known as Building was among the structures built during this period (Parsons and Home Built as a fire-proof structure after fire destroyed several garages, Building was one of more than 100 buildings constructed by the National Guard at Fort Jackson prior to the Fort's acquisition by the U.S. Army in It represents the transition from a guard that trained with horses and that was mobilized by rail, to one that was motorized.

In the garage was converted to a Signal Field Maintenance Shop. Architectural evidence suggests that relatively little was done to the building to accommodate this change other than the construction of the frame addition on the southwest comer and interior concrete-block partitions to create individual office spaces. In the dropped ceiling and a heating system were installed. An exhaust fan was added in (Parsons and Home Building is presently used as a storage and shop facility for the Post Museum. To provide adequate conditions for museum storage, the windows and portions of the garage doors have been covered and insulated on the inside to eliminate drafts.

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Parsons Engineering Science, Inc. and Horne Engineering Services, Inc., Historic Properties Maintenance Plan, Fort Jackson, SC, December Gulf Engineers, Inc., and Hardy Heck More & Associates, Inc., Fort Jackson, South Carolina: An Army Infantry Training Facility in the Southern Department and Fourth Corps Area, June