The Black Experience at Fort Huachuca During WWII: An Interpretation and Exhibit Plan for the Mountain View Officers' Club

Abstract

This technical report serves as a contextual planning document for an interpretive exhibit within and surrounding the Mountain View Officers Club, Building 66050, at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. During World War II (WWII), the Mountain View Officers Club served as the installations Black officers club. It served as various other uses until circa 1998, at which point it became vacant. Today, Fort Huachuca is planning to rehabilitate the building into a mission use space with an indoor-outdoor exhibit space for visitor use within the rehabilitation plan footprint, an 8.15 acre Area of Potential Effect (APE) including the WWII building and associated adjacent features. This report provides numerous potential Courses of Action regarding methods of exhibiting and interpreting historic materials and information in the public spaces within the APE. The Courses of Action chosen during a future Design-Build phase will be based on factors currently unknown, such as funding and staffing; thus, this document serves as a Phase I concept plan for ideas that will be further developed and finalized during the Phase II Design-Build phase. This report also provides guidance for course of action implementation pending factors currently unknown. Fort Huachuca will keep this report in both digital and analog format in perpetuity. ERDC-CERL will also publish it online and make it available to the public free of cost.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2023
Accession Number
AD1218586

Entities

People

  • Aaron R. Schmidt
  • Adam D. Smith
  • Anthony L. White
  • Karlee E. Feinen
  • Kayley R. Schacht
  • Madelyn G. Mccoy
  • Madison L. Story

Organizations

  • Engineer Research and Development Center

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • African Americans
  • Buildings And Structures
  • Civil War
  • Construction
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Military History
  • Military Science
  • Military Training
  • Mobile Phones
  • Natural Resources
  • Recreation
  • Second World War
  • Students
  • United States
  • Urban Areas
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Archaeological Resource Survey
  • Military Leadership and Professional Education.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Space