Historic Landscape Survey, Randolph Air Force Base, Texas

Author(s): Megan W. Tooker; Ellen R. Hartman; Adam D. Smith

Year: 2013

Summary

As an inventory and evaluation of the historic landscape and landscape features of Randolph Air Force Base (AFB), Texas, this document meets the requirement for federal agencies to address their cultural resources, defined as any prehistoric or historic district, site, building, structure, or object.

Randolph AFB’s historic landscape is unique in its design and implementation. The base was planned and designed as an ideal “Air City” to meet flying training requirements while providing a pleasant place for airmen and their families to live. The landscape reflects early twentieth-century planning ideas that grouped functional uses together in geometrically distinct patterns. Implementing these design principles at Randolph Field resulted in a main circle surrounded by a grid of streets, with two flight lines on the east and west sides.

This report identifies several historic component landscapes within Randolph AFB and makes recommendations on their maintenance and preservation. The component landscapes are the administration area; the warehouse and shop area; the base support areas such as the Chapel, hospital, former Post School, and former Post Exchange; the residential areas of the officers’ housing, NCO quarters, and former barracks; the former Cadet Complex; and the flight lines.

Cite this Record

Historic Landscape Survey, Randolph Air Force Base, Texas. Megan W. Tooker, Ellen R. Hartman, Adam D. Smith. 2013 ( tDAR id: 399198) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8399198

Keywords

Culture
Historic

Site Type
Military Structure • Non-Domestic Structures

Investigation Types
Architectural Survey • Environment Research • Heritage Management • Historic Background Research • Records Search / Inventory Checking • Systematic Survey

Geographic Keywords
Randolph Air Force Base • Texas (State / Territory)

Spatial Coverage

min long: -98.304; min lat: 29.508 ; max long: -98.249; max lat: 29.547 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Cultural Resource Office, Joint Base San Antonio

Project Director(s): Adam Smith

Repository(s): Fort Sam Houston

Prepared By(s): Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center

Submitted To(s): Conservation and Restoration Branch, Environmental Division, Randolph Air Force Base

Record Identifiers

ERDC/CERL(s): TR-13-14

Project Number(s): 370647

File Information

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Contact(s): Cultural Resource Office, Joint Base San Antonio