Ellsworth Air Force Base, Recreation Building, 1312 LeMay Boulevard, Blackhawk, Meade County, SD
Summary
Significance: The Recreation Building (Youth Center) was constructed in 1954-55 to serve as a center for supervised youth activities. The building was donated by the General Richard E. Ellsworth family to serve as a memorial to the General and 22 other base airmen, who were killed in the line of duty in 1953 in an RB-36 airplane crash.
Survey number: HABS SD-21-AD
Building/structure dates: 1954-1955 Initial Construction
Tags
Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Ellsworth, Richard E
Kumar, Rebecca, transmitter
Eilbeck, Kevin, photographer
Geiger, Lee, historian
Location
Blackhawk, 44.15110, -103.30796
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html