Fort Des Moines Historic Complex, Building No. 81, Des Moines, Polk County, IA

Significance: This stable barn, finished on January 23, 1904, conformed with plan 139 in the Quartermaster General's Office and was erected at a cost of $16,015.71. Fronting on Thayer Street, the structure was of brick in running bond joined with red-pigmented mortar, a slate roof and rested on a rusticated limestone foundation. It measured 67 feet wide by 165 feet long and had a gabled roof with a louvered monitor with windows along the ridge. The sides of the structure each contained two double hung windows at the north end, plus thirteen single sash windows and a door. (These single sash windows appear to have been subsequently lengthened into double hung windows.) At either end was a double sliding door with five double hung windows. All windows had 3-course segmental arches and limestone lug sills. Door entrances also had segmental arches.
Survey number: HABS IA-121-S
Building/structure dates: 1904 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1910 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1942 Subsequent Work
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74000805