Click image to enlarge. For many years, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) aircraft hangar at Gragg Field served the Chilton County Airport. Today, this abandoned structure has a collapsed metal wall and a roof open to the elements. With no funds for repair and maintenance, its prospects for reuse are not good. Still, local preservationists believe the old airport hangar is worth saving.
Constructed in 1937, the hangar is a sizable resource within the Gragg Field Historic District, one of the few airports in Alabama to be listed in the National Register of Historic Places (2004). The district is significant for its role in aviation history as well as for its status as a WPA site and its association with the Tuskegee Army Airfield. Resources related to aviation history have received little attention until recent years. Recognizing the significance of the airport hangar and the urgency of its condition are important first steps to saving it.
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