Ellsworth Air Force Base, Transmitter Building, 200 yards east of County Road, Blackhawk, Meade County, SD
Summary
Significance: The Transmitter Building (Building No. 11000) was constructed in 1953 as a Communications Transmitter Building to house radio-based aircraft navigation and communication equipment, reflecting the implementation of more sophisticated military navigation technology in the early 1950s.
Survey number: HABS SD-21-X
Building/structure dates: 1953 Initial Construction
Tags
Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
U.S. Air Force
Kumar, Rebecca, transmitter
Groethe, Bill, photographer
Rosby, Wayne, historian
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