Inventory of Cold War Properties at Andrews Air Force Base, Camp Springs, Maryland
Creators: name: Weitze, Karen J.
Publisher: name: Geo-Marine, Inc.
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Cold War Era
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/5551/cold-war-era
subject: Cold War
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/7288/cold-war
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/25/historic
subject: Building 3046
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/128686/building-3046
subject: Building 1419
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/99213/building-1419
subject: Building 3035
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/128685/building-3035
subject: Building 3032
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/128688/building-3032
subject: Building 3001
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/122767/building-3001
subject: Building 3034
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/128687/building-3034
subject: Building 3026
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/128690/building-3026
subject: Building 1223
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/128689/building-1223
subject: Building 3119
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/128692/building-3119
subject: Building 1225
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/94259/building-1225
subject: Building 1429
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/99187/building-1429
subject: Building 3036
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/128691/building-3036
subject: Building 1228
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/94261/building-1228
subject: Building 3045
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/117786/building-3045
subject: Building 1430
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/99353/building-1430
subject: Building 1420
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/95967/building-1420
subject: Building 1418
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/99211/building-1418
subject: Igloo
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/4622/igloo
subject: Historic Governmental Structure
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/320/historic-governmental-structure
subject: Military Structure
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/322/military-structure
subject: Hangar
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/3059/hangar
subject: Andrews Air Force Base
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/167940/andrews-air-force-base
subject: Joint Base Andrews
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/167579/joint-base-andrews
subject: Architectural Documentation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/16/architectural-documentation
subject: Architectural Survey
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/2/architectural-survey

description: The U.S. Air Force, Air Mobility Command, has conducted real property surveys and evaluations at selected installations throughout the continental United States, including Andrews Air Force Base, to identify potentially significant Cold War buildings and structures. Identified resources are primarily associated with the tactical and strategic USAF network built up in North America during the 1949-1962 years. Specific property types discussed are radar enclaves; command and control facilities for gathering and disseminating information within defined air sectors; readiness and alert complexes for fighter (tactical) and bomber/tanker (strategic) aircraft; missile housings and assembly-test units; and weapons areas. All inventoried resources are less than 50 years in age and must meet the NRHP criteria of exceptional significance. Thus the methodology used in these assessments suggests that individual properties within such a group meet a high standard for NRHP integrity, and that interpreted significance is relevant only at a national level. A total of 28 buildings and structures were inventoried at Andrews Air Force Base, including the ANG and ADC air defense areas. No properties inventoried have been listed on or formally evaluated as eligible for the NRHP, and only one property inventoried is interpreted as potentially eligible. Building 3032, the ANG alert hangar of ca. 1946-1947 is potentially eligible under criterion C and criteria consideration G as a rare, intact, and superior example of a CW prototypical structure; it is also one of four known to survive nationally. The ANG alert hangar is the earliest standardized, air defense structure designed specially for a tactical Cold War mission and is the programmatic model for the four- and eight-pocket FIS alert hangar of the USAF.