Visitor's House

Completed in the summer of 1919, the Visitor's House was built by the National Catholic War Council, an organization of the Knights of Columbus, to accommodate families and friends visiting soldiers at early Camp Knox. The house had 14 guest rooms, a lounge, writing rooms, a cafeteria, and a dining room, and a Catholic chaplain affiliated with the Knights of Columbus managed the guest house. In the early 1930's, when the mechanized forces moved to Fort Knox, it was converted to serve as a post hospital and later as the hospital annex. In July 1940, when the initial armored divisions in the US Army were formed, the First Armored Division, Old Ironsides, established its headquarters there. Since April 1942, when the First Armored Division departed for Europe, the building has been occupied by various staff sections of the Armor Center.

Fort Knox, Kentucky · United States