Originally posted by Philip S
Pat, for instance, has told me about a very unusual one in Casper, WY.
There was indeed a very unusual one here in Casper which had been built for the 115th. I'll come back and post some photographs of it when I dig them up.
The armory, which was large enough to allow for indoor riding, was oblong in shape and fairly large. The local high school used it for indoor football practice at one time, and dances, and even indoor polo matches, were held in it. When it came down in the 80s, it was supposedly one of the last, if not the last, round armory left in the country. Unfortunately the brick which had been used to build it was of very poor quality, and the building was beyond hope when it came down. Nonetheless the old troopers of the 115th were opposed to it being torn down, and organized opposition to it. A bronze memorial in the shape of its likeness, which I also have some photos of, stands in the center of a park where it had been.
Pat