Commanding Officer's Quarters, Fort Larned NHS, Larned, KS (2)
**Fort Larned National Historic Site** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 66000107, date listed 10/15/1966
6 mi. W of Larned on U.S. 156
Larned, KS (Pawnee County)
A National Historic Landmark (www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalhistoriclandmarks/list-of-nh...).
Fort Larned was first established in 1859 as Camp on Pawnee Fork, renamed Camp Alert the following year. The army relocated the camp later in 1860 three miles west of the original location to its present site and renamed it again, this time in honor of the Paymaster General, Colonel Benjamin F. Larned. Fort Larned became a focal point for relations and conflicts between Indians and non-Indians on the Plains during and after the Civil War.
The post was established because of Indian displeasure at increasing traffic on the Santa Fe Trail--a well preserved portion of which exists in the national historic site as an area detached from the fort proper. Its mission was to protect the Kansas portion of the trail, and in concert with Fort Lyon, Colorado, and Fort Union, New Mexico, Fort Larned was a principal element in a system of posts and patrols intended to insure the safety of travel, commerce, and the mails in the face of native oppostion.
Nine historic structures, all of stone and all but one constructed during the 1867-68 program, survive from the period of army occupancy at Fort Larned. (1)
HS-8, Commanding Officer's Quarters.
An L-shaped building constructed in 1867-68. It measures 47 feet by 63 feet overall, has walls of finely dressed (bush hammered, with chiselled margins) ashlar sandstone on the front (east) and both sides, with coursed sandstone rubble on the west side. The roof was wood-framed and covered with wood shingles. It housed the commanding officer. The interior was extensively altered by civilian owners, who partially altered and added to the exterior. It is in fair, but partially deteriorated, condition. (1)
References (1) NRHP Nomination Form npgallery.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/66000107.pdf
Commanding Officer's Quarters, Fort Larned NHS, Larned, KS (2)
**Fort Larned National Historic Site** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 66000107, date listed 10/15/1966
6 mi. W of Larned on U.S. 156
Larned, KS (Pawnee County)
A National Historic Landmark (www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalhistoriclandmarks/list-of-nh...).
Fort Larned was first established in 1859 as Camp on Pawnee Fork, renamed Camp Alert the following year. The army relocated the camp later in 1860 three miles west of the original location to its present site and renamed it again, this time in honor of the Paymaster General, Colonel Benjamin F. Larned. Fort Larned became a focal point for relations and conflicts between Indians and non-Indians on the Plains during and after the Civil War.
The post was established because of Indian displeasure at increasing traffic on the Santa Fe Trail--a well preserved portion of which exists in the national historic site as an area detached from the fort proper. Its mission was to protect the Kansas portion of the trail, and in concert with Fort Lyon, Colorado, and Fort Union, New Mexico, Fort Larned was a principal element in a system of posts and patrols intended to insure the safety of travel, commerce, and the mails in the face of native oppostion.
Nine historic structures, all of stone and all but one constructed during the 1867-68 program, survive from the period of army occupancy at Fort Larned. (1)
HS-8, Commanding Officer's Quarters.
An L-shaped building constructed in 1867-68. It measures 47 feet by 63 feet overall, has walls of finely dressed (bush hammered, with chiselled margins) ashlar sandstone on the front (east) and both sides, with coursed sandstone rubble on the west side. The roof was wood-framed and covered with wood shingles. It housed the commanding officer. The interior was extensively altered by civilian owners, who partially altered and added to the exterior. It is in fair, but partially deteriorated, condition. (1)
References (1) NRHP Nomination Form npgallery.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/66000107.pdf