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Title: Fort Buford (DT) Site & Building Drawings
Dates: 1871-1889, 1952 & n. d.
Record Series: 32068
Abstract: Copies of the original from the National Archives. NARA Record Group 77 Misc. Fortifications File 1871-1889, [n.d] 29 items; NARA Record Group 393 Posts 1885-1890, [n.d.] 31 items; Unidentified drawings and information about Fort Buford (DT) 1866-1893, 1952, [n.d.] 16 items. (Copies-probably from the National Archives).
Quantity: 76 items
INVENTORY
NARA Record Group 393:
Fort Buford -02, QM storehouse, [n.d.]
Fort Buford -03, Company kitchen "D5", [n.d.]
Fort Buford -04, Hospital, [n.d.]
Fort Buford -05, Kitchen wing, hospital, [n.d.]
Fort Buford -06, Officers quarters D3, [n.d.]
Fort Buford -08, Guard House, [n.d.]
Fort Buford -09, Plan for orderly's laundry quarters, D57, [n.d.]
Fort Buford -10, Officers quarters [n.d.]
Fort Buford -11, Commanding officers quarters, [n.d.]
Fort Buford -12, Cavalry stable, [n.d.]
Fort Buford -13, Plan for Magazzine, [n.d.]
Fort Buford -14, Commissary storehouse, [n.d.]
Fort Buford -15, Laundress quarters, [n.d.]
Fort Buford -16, Commanding officers quarters, [n.d.]
Fort Buford -17, Bake house, [n.d.]
Fort Buford -18, Water supply system, September 1885.
Fort Buford -19, Plan of post traders buildings, [n.d.]
Fort Buford -20, Officers quarters ground plan, [n.d.] (1 of 2 items)
Fort Buford -25, Plan of Officers quarters [n.d.] (7 drawings)
Fort Buford -27, vestibule and door frames, [n.d.]
Fort Buford -28, Officers quarters, mantels, [n.d.]
Fort Buford -29, Officers quarters, dormers & finishing work, [n.d.]
Fort Buford -30, Officers quarters dormer
Fort Buford -31, Cornice, rear [n.d.]
Fort Buford -32, Officers quarters main, [n.d.]
Fort Buford -34, Part of new proposed sewer line, July 10, 1890
Fort Buford -35, Grounds and buildings, April, 1893
Fort Buford -41, Com'dg [Commanding] officers quarters, [n.d.]
Fort Buford -42, Water tower, [n.d.]
Fort Buford -43, map of grounds, [n.d.]
Fort Buford -44, Grounds and buildings, [n.d.]
NARA Record Group 77
Fort Buford - 05, Quarters for commanding officers, [n. d.]
Fort Buford - 06, Quarters for officers, [n.d.]
Fort Buford - 07, Commanding Officers Building, July 11, 1871
Fort Buford - 08, Officers Quarters, July 11, 1871
Fort Buford - 09, Company Quarters, July 7, 187?
Fort Buford - 11, Quartermasters storehouses, March 1878
Fort Buford - 12, Quartermasters store, March 1878
Fort Buford - 13, Guard House, March 1878
Fort Buford - 14, Bake house, March 1888
Fort Buford - 15, Laundress Quarters, March 1878
Fort Buford - 16, Commissary Storehouse, March 1878
Fort Buford - 17, Kitchen, February 27, 1878
Fort Buford - 18, Stables, August 1887
Fort Buford - 19, Commissary storehouse, [n.d.]
Fort Buford - 20, Plan at dormitory building (Baird? Quarters) [n.d]
Fort Buford - 21, Staff officers quarters, 1889
Fort Buford - 22, Plan of Coal shed, [n.d.]
Fort Buford - 23, Proposed plan of Officers quarters, [n.d.]
Fort Buford - 24, Officers quarters, [n.d.]
Fort Buford - 25, Commanding Officers Quarters, 1888
Fort Buford - 26, Addition of barracks Troup L, 1888
Fort Buford - 27, Officers addition (poor quality image)
Fort Buford - 28, Bake House, 1888
Fort Buford - 29, Coal shed, 1888
Fort Buford - 30, Barracks with additions, 1889
Fort Buford - 31, Bath house, 1889
Fort Buford - 32, Dry earth system of latrines, 1889
Fort Buford - 46, Hospital plan, [n.d.]
Q310, left of Ft. Union-Ft. Buford- The Yellowstone River from Benson's Landing to Fort Buford D.T., 1873, 1876
Unidentified Drawings:
1 - Plan of the hospital first & second floor framing (brown print)
2 - Officers quarters, August 2, 1871. (brown print)
3 - Plan of commanding officers quarters, July 11, 1871. (brown print)
4 - Commissary storehouse, March 1878. (brown print) 1878
5 - Plan of kitchen, August 12 & 14, 1879
6 - Proposed Reservation at Fort Buford DT. [Photostatic copy]
7 - Fort Buford North Dakota, April 1893. [Photostatic copy]
8 - Fort Buford (DT) plan, July 8, 1867. [Photostatic copy] two sections.
9 - Post cemetery plats, 1894. [Photostatic copy] 3 copies
10 - Record book of interments in Post cemetery at Fort Buford, pp 123, 124, 125. [Photostatic copy]
11 - Plan of commanding officers quarters Fort Buford, July 12, 1888. [Photostatic copy]
12 - Proposed plan of quarters to officers at Fort Buford, July 10, 1888. [Photostatic copy]
13 - Fort Buford DT Garrison 5 Companies 31st Infantry, [n.d.] [Photostatic copy]
14 - General plan of Fort Buford, 1874. [Photostatic copy] 1874
15 - Plan of old Fort Buford, June, Dec. 1866. [Photostatic copy] 1866
16 - Regimental Headquarters Fort Buford Williams County North Dakota, August 1952. 3 sheets. [Bound volume].
17 - Buford North Dak. Williams County Embracing Buford Station and the site of old Fort Buford, December 1850. 1 item. (Copy-unidentified excpt for lettering B-89 Vance Nelson)
18- Plat of Buford Williams County (ND), 1912. 1 item. (Copy-unidentified except for lettering B-79-B, from Vance Nelson)
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