Lowry Air Force Base
| Lowry Air Force Base | |
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Part of  Air Training Command (ATC) |
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| Located in Aurora and Denver, Colorado | |
Lowry Air Force Base and nearby residential areas in March 1987
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| Coordinates | 39°43′23″N 104°53′31″W / 39.72306°N 104.89194°W |
| Type | USAF base |
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GNIS: 2089348 |
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| Owner | City & County of Denver |
| Controlled by | United States Air Force |
| Condition | Denver neighborhood |
| Site history | |
| Built | 1937-1941 |
| In use | 12 Dec 1938 – 30 Sep 1994 (base) 1938 - 1966 (airfield) |
| Demolished | numerous buildings |
| Garrison information | |
| Garrison | Lowry Technical Training Center |
 Carillon & hq structures
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redevelopment map
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Missiles on Lowry
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Lowry Business Park sign
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GNIS: 2089348
FFID: CO857002413000
Lowry Air Force Base (Lowry Field 1938-1948) is a Formerly Used Defense Site B08CO0505 that was a United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) training base during World War II and a United States Air Force (USAF) training base during the Cold War, serving as the initial 1955-1958 site of the U.S. Air Force Academy.
The City of Denver, Aurora, and Highland was chartered as the 1859 territorial capital after the start of the 1858 Pikes Peak Gold Rush; and the 1887 Fort Logan was established in the modern Denver Metropolitan Area. East of the state capital, military training at Montclair, Colorado, began at the future airfield when the 1887 Jarvis Hall Military School opened. Montclair was incorporated into Denver in 1903 and Jarvis Hall burned down in 1904. At the military school site the Agnes Phipps Memorial Sanatorium was established as a tuberculosis hospital in 1904 at 520 Rampart Way (cf. "East 6th Avenue and Quebec Street") by Lawrence C. Phipps, Sr., and in the 1930s the sanatorium included 17 buildings designed by the Gove and Walsh firm.
"After several fires at Chanute Field and deterioration of the buildings" in Illinois, a 1934 Air Corps announcement solicited a replacement training location and Denver submitted a bid. The City of Denver purchased the sanatorium for an airfield after a 1935 municipal bond vote. On 27 August 1937, the Denver Branch, Air Corps Technical School, was formed with Departments of Photography and Armament ("photography training moved from Chanute Field"), and the WPA converted the sanatorium grounds into a Colorado military airfield. In February 1938 the airfield being installed adjacent to Fairmont Cemetery was assigned to the Air Corps Technical School headquartered at Chanute, and "the Denver branch of the Army Air Corps became an Army post of 880 acres."
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