Frankford Arsenal, Building Nos. 239-239A, Southeast corner of Clay Street & Cray Road, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

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Significance: Constructed as a powder magazine, Building 239 is associated with the original and most elemental purpose of Frankford Arsenal, the storage of powder and munitions for the United States Army. Building 239A, constructed in 1939 as a sieving house, served the magazine.

Survey number: HAER PA-74-AA

Building/structure dates: 1910 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1939 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1933-1941 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: ca. 1940- 1949 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1955 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1939 Initial Construction

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1940

Historic American Engineering Record, creator

Works Progress Administration

U.S. Department of the Army

O'Bannon, Patrick W, historian

John Milner, Associates, historian

Ransom, Christopher, photographer

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States , 39.95258, -75.16522

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