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Originally Posted by AGHRMatt:

When were those built? The ones out at Ft. MacArthur (now Angels Gate Park)  date back to 1917 and  have a different style.

 

Very few of the WW1-pattern ones exist today.

The pre-war WW2 design is pretty much what's been posted here, and they were built by the thousands all over the US from the start of the 'national emergency' with the draft by 1940. Sadly, most were gone by the 80s and 90s and only a handful exist today in their original WW2 configuration as most that still exist had the lower 'roof' portion removed, siding put over the wood, the ends redesigned and new flooring and latrines put in, probably sometime in the 50s and 60s. They also had the coal stoves and/or steam heat lines removed long before then in most cases. There were lots of other changes, but these are the major ones.

Fort Benning's Infantry museum has a complete, "WW2 company street" with represenations of all the cantonment building types on the post moved into one spot, then all restored back to their WW2 configuration. I went to that museum in 2010 with my Dad, but sadly they only had it open for guided tours, which were cancelled that day to bad weather. I never got closer than about 150 yards. I'm still seething over that.

It has what could be the best preserved WW2 barracks groupings in existence:

More info on this here: http://www.nationalinfantrymus...r-ii-company-street/

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