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COMMISSARY 

 STOREHOUSE CELLAR 



EXCAVATION OF 1951 



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Figure 18. — Ground plan of the cellar of the Commissary Storehouse, Fort Stevenson, 



showing excavations of 1951. 



The brick-lined cellar of the Commissary Storehouse was, ap- 

 parently, the only cellar at the post so built, and was of more careful 

 design than the earth cellars of other buildings. This cellar must have 

 been built at the time of original construction of the building (1873), 

 and had been done with care and some skill in bricklaying. The brick 

 were common red brick that had been shipped to the post for construc- 

 tion purposes, and were indistinguishable from those used elsewhere in 

 chimneys. The brick masonry of the walls of this cellar had been laid 

 four bricks wide, the stretchers, lengthwise with the course of the wall, 

 provided with additional courses of headers at intervals. Throughout 

 the remnants of the walls seen in excavation, only the lowest courses 

 had been preserved, the upper portions having collapsed (or having 

 been pushed) into the cellar, probably after the fire that destroyed the 

 building, and having been covered with other fill (pis. 42, 43). Por- 

 tions of the east and south walls had been preserved to a height of eight 

 courses above the level of the cellar floor, and at these points it was ob- 

 served that the fifth course, counting from the floor level, was a course 

 of headers laid at right angles to the course of the wall (pi. 43, 6). 

 The bricks in these walls had been laid in lime mortar. 



