Powder Magazine (Montgomery, Alabama)

{{short description|Historic building in Montgomery, Alabama}}

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| name = Powder Magazine

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| image = Powder Magazine Montgomery June09 02.jpg

| caption = The magazine in June 2009

| location = Eugene St., Montgomery, Alabama

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| built = {{start year|1861}}

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| added = April 13, 1973

| refnum = 73000370{{NRISref|refnum=73000370|version=2013a|accessdate=March 8, 2024}}

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The Powder Magazine is a historic building in Montgomery, Alabama. The gunpowder magazine was built in 1861 west of the city on a bluff overlooking the Alabama River. Gunpowder for the Confederate Army was stored there during the Civil War, and afterward it was used for general storage.{{cite web |last=Floyd |first=W. Warner |date=December 29, 1972 |title=Powder Magazine |work=National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form |url={{NRHP url|id=73000370}} |publisher=National Park Service |access-date=March 8, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240308193928/https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/NRHP/73000370_text |archive-date=March 8, 2024 |url-status=live}} See also: {{cite web|title=Accompanying photos |url={{NRHP url|id=73000370|photos=y}} |access-date=March 8, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240308193934/https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/NRHP/73000370_photos |archive-date=March 8, 2024 |url-status=live}} A public park was proposed for the site as early as the 1970s, but the area lay empty until the opening of an artificial whitewater park in 2023.{{cite news |last1=Harper |first1=Brad |title=Whitewater park: Former housing project residents put faith in future |url=https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2019/09/20/whitewater-park-former-montgomery-housing-project-residents-put-faith-future/2339943001/ |access-date=March 8, 2024 |work=Montgomery Advertiser |date=September 20, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220926120208/https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2019/09/20/whitewater-park-former-montgomery-housing-project-residents-put-faith-future/2339943001/ |archive-date=September 26, 2022 |url-status=live}}{{cite news |last1=Cason |first1=Mike |title=$90 million Montgomery Whitewater park offers rafting, kayaking, food, music, beer, and more |url=https://www.al.com/news/2023/07/90-million-montgomery-whitewater-park-offers-rafting-kayaking-food-music-beer-and-more.html |access-date=March 8, 2024 |work=AL.com |date=July 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230715212111/https://www.al.com/news/2023/07/90-million-montgomery-whitewater-park-offers-rafting-kayaking-food-music-beer-and-more.html |archive-date=July 15, 2023 |url-status=live}}

The magazine is a one-story brick building with a pyramidal roof. The walls are {{convert|24|in|cm}} thick, and the entry door has an iron sill and iron bars. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.