Press Release
☷BUILDING 360 QUARTERS 32 33
U.S. Army ( By Press Release office)
Apr 29,2022
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The structure now known as Building 360 on Rock Island Arsenal is shown as it appeared in 1898 , when it served as installation headquarters . . ( Photo courtesy of ASC History Office . ) Building 360 as it appeared in 1959 when it served as officers’ quarters . ( Photo courtesy of ASC History Office . ) This description of a home located on Rock Island Arsenal , Illinois , is part of a series on the unique housing found on the installation . Information was provided by a joint effort the History Office of the U . S . Army Sustainment Command and the Welcome Club at Rock Island Arsenal . General Thomas Jackson Rodman’s plan for Rock Arsenal called for the construction of ten large stone manufacturing shops which would be supplemented by various administrative , residential , and storage facilities . All would have similar Greek Revival architecture . In 1888 , the arsenal received funds from Congress to construct a headquarters . It was one of the last buildings erected under the scope of Rodman’s plan . This building was the first permanent structure at the Arsenal designed solely for administration purposes . The building is now known as Building 360 and was constructed of Joliet limestone . It is situated west of the north row of shops lining Main Avenue ( now known as Rodman Avenue ) . Though in a Greek Revival style , it shows an influence of Richardsonian Romanesque style in the asymmetrical massing and use of round - arched window openings for three pairs of windows . Building 360 served as headquarters for Rock Island Arsenal from 1889 to 1922 . It housed the offices of the post commander and his assisting officers , and also many other departments , including the mail and finance sections . During the time Building 360 served as headquarters , eight commanding officers ran the arsenal from its offices . During the severe decline in military activity following World War I , the Arsenal consolidated its manufacturing processes largely into Building 220 and moved its headquarters to the building next to it . Building 360 sat empty or was used for storage through most of the 1920s and 1930s . In 1934 , the Arsenal received funding to convert this building to family housing . RIA Public Works Administration employees may well have done the conversion . With the reorganization of buildings on Rock Island Arsenal in 2004 , these quarters were returned to administrative usage and are no longer used as private residences .
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