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Basement entrance. - Ellsworth Air Force Base, Rushmore Air Force Station, Security Central Control Building, Quesada Drive, Blackhawk, Meade County, SD
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Basement entrance. - Ellsworth Air Force Base, Rushmore Air Force Station, Security Central Control Building, Quesada Drive, Blackhawk, Meade County, SD
Description
Black and Veatch; Department of the Army, Office of the Chief of Engineers; Jackson, Christiana, transmitter; Barbalace, Donald S, photographer; Anderson, Kenneth L, historian
Depicted place South Dakota; Meade County; Blackhawk
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HABS SD-21-E-10
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • This structure was demolished in 1996.
  • Significance: Constructed in 1952, the RAFS Security Central Control Building is significant for its association with American military policy during the Cold War years of the early 1950s. During this era, the United States embarked on a period of nuclear weaponry proliferation, fueled by post World War II diplomatic and military tensions between the US and the Soviet Union. These tensions resulted in the creation of thirteen nuclear weapons storage sites within the US, one of which is the Rushmore Air Force Station. These facilities were a central component of the US's nuclear weapons strategy to deter a Soviet attack against Western Europe or North America.
  • Survey number: HABS SD-21-E
  • Building/structure dates: 1951-1952 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1994 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1996 Demolished
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/sd0038.photos.214163p
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