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removed. It is hardly surprising that when it was demolished, it was 

 said that nothing could be done to save the building. 



The former Commanding Officer's Quarters (fig. 20; pi. 44, h), 

 like most of the more important buildings of the post, had been built 

 of stone, adobe brick and adobe mortar, and timbers, including mill- 

 work of various kinds, and had had plastered walls and ceilings. 

 Traces of most of these elements were found on excavation, which was 

 made at the site after it had been a ruin for only 6 years. When 

 first approached, the site was covered with a mass of dense, tall weeds 

 surrounding a cellar hole filled with great quantities of building 

 debris, particularly, large quantities of broken plaster. Various 

 remnants and bits of timber and millwork were also lying about, 

 which had been overlooked or discarded when the house was torn 

 down. 



The weeds and rank grass that covered most of the site, except for 

 the cellar area, were first removed, revealing the contours of the 

 surface. Narrow trenches were then dug along the exterior of the 

 exposed stone masonry of footings and other elements surviving 

 in place from the original structure. The cellar is said to have been 

 made after the building had been in use for many years, and it was 

 for that reason left unexcavated (pis. 44, h; 45, a). No other major 

 architectural changes in the original were noted, in excavation, since 

 all parts of the stnicture above the footings, except for portions of 

 the main building sills, had been removed from their places at the 

 time of final demolition. Within the interior of the structure, excava- 

 tion was carried down to the original ground level upon which the 

 building had been placed, as far as the margin of the recent cellar 

 mentioned. 



As had been the case with previous sites excavated, the deposit 

 covering the site of the Commanding Officer's Quarters was derived 

 primarily from the materials originally comprised in the building 

 itself, with little visible additions such as wind-deposited soil. These 

 materials included adobe brick, adobe mortar, common fired brick, 

 lime mortar and lime plaster, and occasional wood fragments or larger 

 timbers, plank, or moldings, ordinarily much decayed and rarely 

 in their original positions. Various samples of wood members were 

 obtained. Among these were two cottonwood door sills, much worn 

 with use, a window casing, a portion of a second window casing bear- 

 ing the manufacturer's stencil and the shipping address of the Acting 

 Assistant Quartermaster of the post. There were parts of a door 

 frame, and a complete door, which appears to be of an older style 

 of millwork, and had probably been at the post from the period of 

 the military occupation. 



No evidence was seen in the excavation of this site of any fire- 

 damage to the original structure. Though outlines of adobe bricks 



