Inventory of Cold War Properties at Andrews Air Force Base, Camp Springs, Maryland
Author(s): Karen J. Weitze
Year: 1996
Summary
The U.S. Air Force, Air Mobility Command, has conducted real property surveys and evaluations at selected installations throughout the continental United States, including Andrews Air Force Base, to identify potentially significant Cold War buildings and structures. Identified resources are primarily associated with the tactical and strategic USAF network built up in North America during the 1949-1962 years. Specific property types discussed are radar enclaves; command and control facilities for gathering and disseminating information within defined air sectors; readiness and alert complexes for fighter (tactical) and bomber/tanker (strategic) aircraft; missile housings and assembly-test units; and weapons areas. All inventoried resources are less than 50 years in age and must meet the NRHP criteria of exceptional significance. Thus the methodology used in these assessments suggests that individual properties within such a group meet a high standard for NRHP integrity, and that interpreted significance is relevant only at a national level.
A total of 28 buildings and structures were inventoried at Andrews Air Force Base, including the ANG and ADC air defense areas. No properties inventoried have been listed on or formally evaluated as eligible for the NRHP, and only one property inventoried is interpreted as potentially eligible. Building 3032, the ANG alert hangar of ca. 1946-1947 is potentially eligible under criterion C and criteria consideration G as a rare, intact, and superior example of a CW prototypical structure; it is also one of four known to survive nationally. The ANG alert hangar is the earliest standardized, air defense structure designed specially for a tactical Cold War mission and is the programmatic model for the four- and eight-pocket FIS alert hangar of the USAF.
Cite this Record
Inventory of Cold War Properties at Andrews Air Force Base, Camp Springs, Maryland. Karen J. Weitze. 1996 ( tDAR id: 470151) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8470151
Keywords
Culture
Historic
Site Name
Building 1223
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Building 1225
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Building 1228
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Building 1418
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Building 1419
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Building 1420
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Building 1429
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Building 1430
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Building 3001
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Building 3026
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Building 3032
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Building 3034
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Building 3035
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Building 3036
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Building 3045
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Building 3046
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Building 3119
Site Type
Hangar
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Historic Governmental Structure
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Igloo
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Military Structure
Investigation Types
Architectural Documentation
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Architectural Survey
General
Andrews Air Force Base
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Joint Base Andrews
Temporal Keywords
Cold War
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Cold War Era
Spatial Coverage
min long: -76.908; min lat: 38.788 ; max long: -76.836; max lat: 38.839 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Joint Base Andrews CRM Manager
Record Identifiers
GMI Project No.(s): 1114-089
ID No.(s): DACA63-93-D-0014
OMB No.(s): 0704-0188
Office Symbol(s): CESWF-PL-RC
Delivery Order No.(s): 0089
File Information
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Contact(s): Joint Base Andrews CRM Manager