Formerly called "Lee Barracks" and now named after GEN Matthew Ridgway, Ridgway Barracks was built in 1962. These barracks are under renovation and will reopen in 2025.

Lee Barracks: Home to no cadets since Company F of the Third Regiment moved into Sherman at the end of 2021 and renovations began the next year. It was built in 1962, and is named after Colonel Robert E. Lee. In addition, it once housed the cadet barber shop in its basement, which was also removed once renovation began.

Cadet residence halls at West Point are referred to as “barracks”. Cadets live all four years in the barracks, free of charge. Rooms house 2-4 cadets and come furnished with a twin-size bunk bed, wall locker, and desk.

Jun 22, 2020 · By the time Lee Barracks was named, the view of the Civil War at West Point had already undergone a complete metamorphosis. So, what should West Point do about its Robert E. Lee problem? We believe the solution to this complex issue is simple: Lee should be remembered, but not honored.

This program includes the construction of the new Davis Barracks, completed in FY2017, and one regular permanent party enlisted barracks (Building 620) which is currently underway. COMPLETED: Scott, MacArthur, Pershing, Eisenhower, Grant, and Bradley; IN PROGRESS: Lee and Sherman (complete in 2024) Bldg. 620 (complete by May 2023)

Dec 26, 2022 · Lee, once a U.S. military general who was ultimately appointed commander of the Confederate army toward the end of the Civil War, was a graduate and superintendent of West Point and...

Jun 19, 2020 · It is now time for West Point to take its next important step: to change the name of Lee Barracks, Lee Road, and Lee Gate, all named after Robert E. Lee, the Confederate general who led the fight to perpetuate a system that would have supported the enslavement of Simone Askew, Benjamin O. Davis Jr., and Darryl A. Williams.

Dec 22, 2022 · But in the coming days, the storied academy will take down a portrait of Lee dressed in his Confederate uniform from its library, where it has been hanging since the 1950s and place it in storage.

Lee Barracks, opened in 1962, is located next door to Grant Hall, named for Ulysses S. Grant, an 1843 West Point graduate who went on to command Union troops and accepted Lee’s surrender at...

West Point’s Memorialization, History, and Museum Committee has chosen names to replace the streets, buildings, and areas throughout West Point currently named for individuals who served in the Confederacy. Lee Road is now Grant Road; Beauregard Place is now Davidson Place; Hardee Place is now Rogers Place; Lee Housing Area is now Grant ...