Ogden Arsenal, Ballistics Building, 6056 Wardleigh Road, Layton

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Building provides particularly vivid insight into the processes involved in the creation, testing and storage of highly explosive components like munitions. In addition, this building contributes to an understanding of the U.S. Army build-up which occurred during World War II. History: Building was constructed in as a ballistics building to use in firing guns in a gun range. General Description: Building (originally x is a one story gable roofed building with a shorter flat roofed section on the east located just east of the 1200-warehouse area. The building contains a firing room in the taller section and the lower section houses the three rooms in which the arms are fired. Each room is separated from the other by concrete walls. The flat roof section still has its original 6 box vents.

The firing passage was extended with a wood frame gable roofed addition on the other side of the original concrete backstop. This new addition has a corrugated metal roof and sits adjacent to a solid concrete wall that extends about 15 feet above the roof line. The remainder of the firing passage is buried under a mound of earth that appears to follow a gable roof shape. The only other visible parts of the addition include the concrete backstop at the far east end and a rectangular gabled vent in the southeast corner. The entry elevation originally contained a double door (now single) flanked by 8 over 8 double hung windows (now barred). The north and south elevations were originally blank, but now contain an overhead door on the south and a double loading door on the north.

Other minor additions include a shed- roofed entry on the north and an enclosed roof access. The north and south elevations also contain a stepped pattern under the gable of the firing room.