A key goal at the Fort Monroe National Monument is to paint and clean up the Quarters No. 1 exterior in time the 400th anniversary in late August commemorating the arrival of the first Africans to ...

When Army engineers finished Quarters 1 at Fort Monroe in 1821, the three-story Federal structure ranked as one of the earliest, most prominent milestones in the construction of America’s ...

HAMPTON — Fort Monroe’s Old Quarters 1 has been renovated, expanded and repurposed time and time again since it was built in 1819.The National Park Service will soon control the large white ...

Fort Monroe’s Lasting Place ... told me when I paid a call at Quarters No. 1, just inside the fort’s high ... an elegant 1819 building—the oldest on the post—but the interior retains its ...

Another building, Building 80, was built in 1897 as a Visiting Officers’ Quarters. The building’s eight units were reconfigured into apartments in the 1920s. In 1927, a two-story wing was added, which ...

Old Quarters 1 “is the oldest building on Fort Monroe other than the lighthouse. In 1819, Lafayette entertained there. Lincoln spent four nights there,” Mr. Armbruster said.

Two U.S. senators and a congresswoman from Virginia are urging the U.S. Department of the Interior to accept a donation of about 40 acres of land on Fort Monroe.

Growing up, Hampton native Khyle Dixon remembers Fort Monroe as this hidden magical playground, a former military post, a place to kick around with friends during summers. But inside there was an a… ...