Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 68, Rodman Avenue between Fourth Street & East Avenue, Rock Island, Rock Island County, IL

Significance: After taking command of Rock Island Arsenal in 1865, General Thomas Jefferson Rodman devised a master plan for the installation calling for the construction of ten large, Greek Revival, manufacturing shops, five on each side of the island's major east-west thoroughfare. Under construction from 1881 to 1893, Shop K was the last to be completed. With its companion facilities completed under the Rodman plan, Shop K forms a cohesive architectural statement, which, in terms of both scale and style, has no counterpart among government installations in the Midwest. In addition to their architectural importance, the Rodman shop buildings are the administrative and technological core of Rock Island Arsenal, one of only two "old-line," nineteenth-century arsenals still in operation for munitions production. The buildings are vital for understanding the history of American ordnance development and manufacture from the Spanish American War to the present. Shop K is part of the Rock Island National Register Historic District.

Survey number: HAER IL-20-E

Building/structure dates: 1893 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1918 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1943 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1947 Subsequent Work

National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 69000057

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