Camp Rucker’s bakery was first recorded in May 1879 as a log building with an earth roof and an adjacent guardhouse, while the nearby commissary was a stockaded tent structure with vertical log walls and a canvas roof. In May 1880, a permanent building program began to replace the tent and log structures, and by July the commissary storehouse was completed with adobe walls, a stone-walled cellar, and a shingled roof. In October 1880, Captain MacGowan reported that the storehouse and cellar were excellent but still lacked doors and windows because needed materials had not arrived from the Quartermaster Department, leaving stores vulnerable to weather and theft. An adobe bakehouse with no windows was completed in the fall, and its bread was described as good or very good. Records show repeated supply problems at Camp Rucker: in September 1878 Captain Madder reported that there was no flour, beans, or sugar and that the location of the pack train was unknown; by the winter of 1879 the post commander reported a surplus of more than eighteen thousand rations of bacon and pork on hand and nearly seven thousand more en route that were not required; and in July 1880 Captain MacGowan requested an increased bread ration because there were no vegetables at the post. After Camp Rucker was abandoned, the commissary was converted into a home for ranch owners, but it burned in 1921, and Charles and Mary Rak moved much of its remaining adobe walls to a nearby frame house for winter protection. Today, only a wall corner and the foundation remain. The bakehouse was later altered for other uses with windows added and the oven removed, though the oven’s outline is still visible. The bakery’s walls are original, but its roof has been replaced to help preserve the structure.