CMA Barracks  

In 1895 the former Chautauqua hotel burns. The hotel housed all the cadets and the academy facilities. February 24, 1895, when at noon the frame hotel which had been used as temporary barracks, suddenly took fire and was burned to the ground.

Construction was begun on Main Barrack that same year. Main Barrack housed 90 cadets, had a dining room, class rooms, offices, infirmary, library, and power plant. It is one of the oldest buildings on campus. Main Barrack is home to the Culver Artillery

1897 - West barracks was erected - accommodating forty-four cadets and two officers, and containing six section rooms, one physical laboratory and one chemical laboratory.

1899 - East Barrack was erected - accommodating sixty cadets and two officers, with hospital of four rooms, two laboratories, and library. January and May of 1899 the boiler room was enlarged, two additional tubular boilers installed, and six rooms for employees were built over the engine room, a brick stack one hundred feet high being also constructed. A powder magazine, covered gallery for formations, and new walks in the grounds were other improvements made.

1904 - South Barracks was erected - with capacity for ninety cadets and three officers.

1933 - Jan 21 - Rapid Progress Made on SOuth Barracks
The remodeling of the South Barrack is progressing rapidly. It is expected that the building will be commplete and ready for occupancy late next spring. All the frame work for heat ducts in the ceilings of hall-ways is completed and the underground heating duct has been extended to the second floor. These ducts are a new feature. They will convey heated air to all rooms in lieu of steam pipes.
All the electrical work in the halls has been completed and attention is not being directed to the wiring for center lighting fixtures in the rooms.

A club -room, the firplace for which has been completed, will be located in the basement.

The furniture for the cadets' rooms has not been decided upon definitely.

Several types of wardrobes are on trail in two expermental rooms located in West Barrack. It is believed that the most satisfactory features of each type will be combined to form an ideal cadet wardrobe.

The roomas in SOuth will be arranged much the same as the experimental rooms in West. - Vedette.

1913 - The North barracks and the Administration building were built. The Administration building included a magnificent administration hall and administrative offices. A descriptive of this building was found as such:

1913 Saturday May 3, Volume XVII Number 24, Vedette - A new barrack will be erected during the summer of 1913 and the capacity of the academy increased thereby to 440 cadets...the site for the new building has been selected on the ground north of the East barrack, which the new one will parallel...The first floor will contain offices for the headmaster and commandant, together with the additional class rooms...The upper floors will be given over to the cadets.



The most distinctive feature of this new building will be the imposing sally-port which will constitute a sort of official front for the academy to which visitors will be brought over the drive which is eventually to lead from the corner of the grounds near the hospital.



Above this will be a splendidly lighted airy room for the purpose of faculty meetings, courts-marial, etc. The increase room capacity and in number fo_ cadets will also make it possible to carry out a long cherished plan for six company organization insted of the present four, and for the rooming of the cadet corps according to companies. the quarters will divide admirabley in a way to allow this, with one floor for the band quarters.

Cadet Rooms



Location of the barracks.



Lauridsen Barrack for the Band units,opened fall of 2022

Roberts Residental Quad
The new
Main - East and West Barracks buildings, The building is scheduled to open in June 2024 for summer camp.
North Barrack
East Barrack

Robert Barracks Hall, opened 2021




South





South





North