PAP.^o.iaf' INVESTIGATIONS AT FORT STEVENSON — SMITH 187 



Although no remnants of doors, windows, or casings were found at 

 this site, even in charred form, window-glass fragments were encoun- 

 tered in almost all parts of the site. Some of this glass appeared to be 

 undamaged by fire, but most of it occurred in melted or fire-damaged 

 condition. No complete panes of glass had survived, but it seems 

 probable that the windows were simple 4- or 6-pane sash, the panes 

 hence rather small. The fragments all appear to be of the modern 

 type in thickness, approaching that today described as No. 6 (approxi- 

 mately %6 inch). Little of the metal hardware in use in the building 

 at the time of the fire had survived, and much of this had been so 

 damaged by heat that it revealed little of the appearance of original 

 items. Such hardware as had been in use here was, perhaps, of the 

 simplest sort, and the bits found revealed nothing of architectural 

 significance concerning the plan of the building. 



The surviving evidence concerning the original construction of the 

 post Hospital may be summarized as follows : evidence derived from 

 the documentary record (including photographic and other pictorial 

 evidence) and from archeological investigation. The building had 

 been set upon stone-masonry foundations. The walls consisted of 

 adobe-brick masonry (with, probably, some timber framing, the exact 

 design of which is obscure) . Roofs, floors, and mill work at windows 

 and doors were of wood. Only adobe brick and the heavier building 

 timbers, of cottonwood, were of local origin and manufacture. All 

 else — building hardware, windows, doors, and casings, even shingles, 

 common fired bricks, and lime — had been brought to the post by steam- 

 boat, from a distance (probably largely from St. Louis, Mo.). The 

 window sashes were provided with glass. Several common fired-brick 

 chimneys, for use with stoves, were a part of the original building. 

 Their exact location cannot be demonstrated, though their approxi- 

 mate position is known from documentary records, and at least one 

 photograph, which shows the east elevation of the East Wing of the 

 Hospital (copies in Missouri Basin Project and National Park Serv- 

 ice Region Two files, showing the placement of windows on the east 

 elevation but nothing of their detail). No major architectural 

 changes are known to have been made on the structure after its com- 

 pletion, and any alterations that may have been made were probably 

 minor in nature. 



SOUTH BARRACKS 



Fort Stevenson was provided with two barracks or sets of "Com- 

 pany Quarters," for housing the two companies of infantry intended 

 for it. Like other major buildings about the parade ground, these 

 barracks were built to enclose a yard. In the case of the barracks, 

 however, the central portion or "body" of the buildings faced imme- 

 diately on the parade, the yards thus opening away from it, perhaps 



