Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area B, Building 36, Maintenance Building No. 2, North end of D Street, Dayton

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Building 36 was built as a support facility for the early aeronautical engineering research at Wright Field. It has undergone many additions and changes, but continues to serve in a similar capacity. Project History This report is part of the overall Wright- Patterson Air Force Base, Area B documentation project conducted by HAER See overview report, HAER No. OH-7 9, for a complete description of the project. WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, AREA B BUILDING 36,

Maintenance Building

No. 2 HAER No. OH-79-AE (Page 2)

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Maintenance Building No. 2 is a two-story, six-course American bond brick building with a low-pitched gable roof, and rectangular columns with concrete capitals decorating the corners. The current structure covers square feet which includes two additions. The first is a small extension built onto the front in the same style as the original except with a stretcher bond, instead of American bond, brick pattern. The second addition sits along the north side of the original building. A sheet of brick extending from the roof about three-quarters of the way back is probably a former gable indicating that the northern expansion was constructed in two projects.

Like the other addition, this section uses stretcher bond brick for its exterior walls, but it differs further from the original building since the gable is entirely of brick with no decorative columns, towers, or entablature. HISTORY: The earliest section of Maintenance Shop No- 2 was built in on the site of the original Wright Field temporary heating plant which had burned down earlier that year. The original building constitutes only of the current square feet of the structure. Two additions were built in the late and early a small extension attached to the front and another along the north side of the original building. Initially the entire north section was called Building 34, Maintenance Building Number 5.

Shortly after the end of World War II, the structure's designation was reduced to the single number 36. Since the additions Building 3 6 has housed a variety of engineering shops, including refrigeration, carpentry, steam fitting, plumbing, metal, bench, locksmith, and paint shops. Today the Construction Management Section of the Engineering Construction Branch is located in Building 36, as is Civil Engineering1s Simplified Acquisition of Base Engineering Requirements (SABER) office. For bibliography, see Wright-Patterson Air Force Base overview report (HAER No.