{"id":1360,"date":"2010-04-29T15:04:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T15:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=1360"},"modified":"2010-04-29T15:04:40","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T15:04:40","slug":"west-arsenal-springfield-armory-1808","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=1360","title":{"rendered":"West Arsenal, Springfield Armory (1808)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/West-Arsenal.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"West Arsenal\" width=\"500\" height=\"341\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/West-Arsenal.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/West-Arsenal-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The oldest surviving building at the Springfield Armory is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcc.edu\/vtour\/building11.asp\">West Arsenal<\/a>, the first two floors of which were constructed in 1808 as a storehouse for completed weapons.  The third floor was added in 1863.  After the completion of the <a href=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=1316\">Main Arsenal<\/a>, in 1851, the West Arsenal served other purposes over the years, becoming a barrel house, storehouse, recreation building, barracks and, during World War Two, an officer&#8217;s club.  Today it is part of the campus of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcc.edu\/\">Springfield Technical Community College<\/a>.     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The oldest surviving building at the Springfield Armory is the West Arsenal, the first two floors of which were constructed in 1808 as a storehouse for completed weapons. The third floor was added in 1863. After the completion of the Main Arsenal, in 1851, the West Arsenal served other purposes over the years, becoming a barrel house, storehouse, recreation building, barracks and, during World War Two, an officer&#8217;s club. Today it is part of the campus of Springfield Technical Community College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,140,100],"tags":[141],"class_list":["post-1360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal","category-military","category-springfield","tag-springfield-armory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1366,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions\/1366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}