FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas -- Realignment of U.S. Army Installation Management Command to Fort Sam Houston will require renovation of at least five historic structures and construction of two new buildings.
Buildings 2264 through 2266 are being renovated as administrative space for IMCOM headquarters. These three-story structures were built as infantry regimental headquarters and an infantry battalion barracks between 1928 and 1929.
Building 2270, the Fort Sam Houston Theatre, originally opened as a movie theater in 1935, is being renovated and expanded to house live performances. More than 14,000 square feet of the building will be restored and a 26,000 square foot addition will be attached. The project is slated to finish June 2011.
Construction mobilization for Buildings 2264 and 2266 is scheduled to begin in October. Mobilization for construction of the IMCOM headquarters buildings and the FMWR instructional facility is expected to occur early 2010.
In a related effort, other historic structures are being renovated for use by IMCOM-West and the Army Environmental Command of IMCOM headquarters. Building 2000, built in 1908 to serve as the installation's new hospital, replacing the hospital that had been constructed in 1886 is a three-story wood and masonry structure with a basement and attic.
It has limestone exterior walls, wooden and masonry columns, wraparound wooden verandas on the first and second floors, and a wood-framed roof structure. In 1910, two wings were added to the east and west giving the building its current "U" shape.
Modifications to this structure include repairing or replacing failing wooden porch decking, railings, and columns. The exteriors of two existing fireplaces will also be uncovered and preserved.
Buildings 2001 and 2007 were built in 1917 adjacent to the Building 2000 hospital. Building 2001 served as a hospital annex and 2007 functioned as a hospital ward. They both share many of Building 2000's design features and structural materials. Both Buildings 2000 and 2001 are scheduled to be ready for occupancy before the end of this year. Renovations to Building 2007 were completed last fall.
(Source: Fort Sam Houston Joint Program Management Office News Release)
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