The Fort Vancouver National Trust and the city of Vancouver will open the doors to the renovated Artillery Barracks building at 10:15 a.m. Friday.
Mayor Pro Tem Larry Smith will help cut the ribbon. Smith is a retired Army colonel and served at Vancouver Barracks. The Trust and the city will be joined by the National Park Service, the Washington State Historical Society and the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation.
Free public tours of the renovated space will be offered after the ceremony, which marks a renovation of the south porch and 6,500 square feet of interior space on the first floor of the building’s east wing.
Original architectural details that were preserved include the open floor plan, white oak tongue-and-groove floors, pressed tin ceiling tiles, interior and exterior columns and steam heat radiators. Period-appropriate reproduction light fixtures were added.