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• Collection: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey

• Title: Paymaster's Quarters, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV
• Other Title: Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
  Lockwood House
• Creator(s): Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
• Related Names:
     Reeves, F. Blair , historian
     Boucher, Jack E. , photographer
     Franzen, Archie W. , project manager
     Reeves, F. Blair , project manager
     Baker, Henry R. , field team
     Buchele, Mary M. , field team
     Frolichstein, Seymour R. , field team
     Keune, Russell V. , field team
     Nelson, Harold A. , field team
     Wisner, William A. , field team
     Wrenn, George L. , field team
     Harpers Ferry National Historical Park , sponsor
     Lindstrom, Frederick J. , project manager
     Lavoie, Catherine C. , project manager
     White, John Poston , project manager
     Helgoth, Eric T. , field team supervisor
     Fowlkes, Leisl J. , field team
     Husted, Bridget A. , field team
     Duhig, Christa J. , field team
     Kauppi, Timo Juhani , field team
     Louden, Elizabeth I. , project manager
     Strain, Mary Ellen , field team supervisor
     Andrews, Jennifer A. , field team
     Plaisance, Randy M. , field team
     Greenwood, Burke D. , field team
     Stein, Barbara M. , field team
     Furu, Arpad , field team
     Crane, Sheila R. , historian
     Stowell, Walton D., II , project assistant
     Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) , sponsor
     Hoffman, Jason C. , delineator
     Duhig, Christa J. , delineator
• Date Created/Published: Documentation compiled after 1933
• Medium: Photo(s): 37
  Measured Drawing(s): 34
  Data Page(s): 41
  Photo Caption Page(s): 2
• Reproduction Number: ---
• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html)
  
• Call Number: HABS WVA,19-HARF,14-
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
• Notes:
  • Significance: Prominently located on the eastern crest of Camp Hill at the head of a row of four residences for Armory officials, the Paymaster's Quarters has survived innumerable structural changes. First erected in 1847-49, the Paymaster's Quarters was one of many architectural improvements to the Harpers Ferry Armory designed and executed by Superintendent John Symington. In 1858, extensive modifications were made to the residence of the paymaster, including the addition of a second story. During the Civil War, Generals Lockwood and Sheridan appropriated the house for their headquarters; it subsequently suffered extensive damage. In 1865, Nathan C. Brackett organized a school in the Paymaster's Quarters. Sponsored by the Freewill Baptist Home Mission Board, the school was among the earliest organized educational programs available to African-Americans in Harpers Ferry. From its modest beginnings in the Paymaster's Quarters, the school developed into Storer College, one of the few African-American colleges in the country at the time of its incorporation in 1867. As Storer College evolved, so did the Paymaster's Quarters. Although the building functioned only temporarily as a classroom and dormitory, it housed a summer boarding house and hotel, which was known as the Lockwood House, for almost fifty years. The construction of a Mansard roof on the Paymaster's Quarters ca. 1883 provided ten additional rooms for summer boarders which were occasionally used during the academic year by Storer students. After the addition of former Storer College property to Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, the exterior of the Paymaster's Quarters was returned to its pre-Civil War appearance in a restoration project which included the removal of its Mansard roof.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-26
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N247, N318
  • Survey number: HABS WV-179
• Place:
  • West Virginia--Jefferson County--Harpers Ferry
• Collections:
  • Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey
• Part of: Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
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• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
• Reproduction Number: ---
• Call Number: HABS WVA,19-HARF,14-
• Medium: Photo(s): 37
  Measured Drawing(s): 34
  Data Page(s): 41
  Photo Caption Page(s): 2

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• Call Number: HABS WVA,19-HARF,14-
• Medium: Photo(s): 37
  Measured Drawing(s): 34
  Data Page(s): 41
  Photo Caption Page(s): 2

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