North Officers' Quarters

Officers and their wives tried to create a genteel atmosphere on these remote Army posts.

NPS Photo

Quick Facts

Location:

Larned, KS

Significance:

Original Sandstone Building

Amenities

4 listed

Accessible Rooms, Benches/Seating, Cellular Signal, Wheelchair Accessible

Just as the barracks were designed with four companies in mind, the company officers' quarters were also designed to house four companies' worth of officers. A typical company's officers included two lieutenants and one captain. As such, each of the one-story buildings housed two captains and four lieutenants.

The captain’s quarters were at the ends of the buildings and had two rooms, a kitchen, and servant’s room. Lieutenants had one room each with no kitchen until 1870. At that time, wooden lean-to structures were added at the back of each building to give the lieutenants kitchens and servant space.