Post Exchange - 5745 Lawton Loop East Drive

Year Built: 1908

Architecture Style: Colonial Revival

Key Features:

• Central Pediment
• Decorative Masonry
• Segmental Arched Windows

This is the old post exchange, where soldiers could purchase small items and snacks to make army life a little easier; and there was once a small, three-lane bowling alley in the basement for recreation. It was later used as a non-commissioned officers club.

Notice that this building is currently undeveloped. Context Design, a landscape architecture firm, owns the building and is working on a plan for its repurposing and conversion.

The small brick structure on the field is the Parade Viewing Stands. Ranking officers positioned themselves here to review formations and passing units. Old photos show thousands of massed troops, with infantry, artillery, mounted cavalry, and horse- and mule-drawn wagons.