Arsenal Technical High School - Arsenal Cannon Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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Q-vu--.... -h-In-inn... Plans for the restoration had begun as early as 1964. Artillery Building, former cafeteria and carpentry shops, over 20,000 bricks were cleaned and stored for possible Arsenal renewal project. When these were later found suitable, 8500 new, matching bricks were purchased to Arsenal's original condition. 4 Danger signs marked the area around the Arsenal from May to September while work continued on the 822,000 renovation. Today the Arsenal houses the administrative offices, the Library, the Book- store, several business classes and the IBM facilities. Seen through the arched windows of the Arsenal, these workers, part of an eight-man crew, clean bricks in the structure built in 1865 as a Union Army post. Building and Grounds Division employees added the finishing touches on the exterior trim. When the was razed, use in the to be un- restore the 9

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Arsenal renewal begins second century One hundred years of dirt and erosion sandblasted all masonry surfaces, were scraped from the face of the and Sealed the building' Arsenal Building during the summer of 1967. The boom of the hammer and bell Crumbling bricks and deteriorated limestone of the Arsenal Clock bore the effects Of time- will signal the final success of the project. The Board of School Commissioners ' ' ' - With renovation of its three giant faces decided to preserve this historic building. and its Wooden Cogs, An eight-man crew replaced bricks and mortar, 3 fifty-year Silence will bg broken.

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