The stone guardhouse on the southern side still had not been torn down, as Feran had done to the one in Emal more than two years before, and that also troubled Alucius.

Just inside the gates sat a squat stone guardhouse, where strangers to the city were supposed to register before entering.

Nearly all of the buildings were constructed of wood except for the stone guardhouse, which was built in 1869 and remains the only structure standing today.

An officer appeared from the stone guardhouse inside the gates, crested helmet under his arm, but one hand in a steel-backed gauntlet resting on his swordhilt.

The stone guardhouse on the southern side had not been removed, as Feran had been required to do with the one in Emal, but the gates had been opened wide and chained back, and there were no Southern Guards in evidence.

These include an intact stone powder magazine, a stone guardhouse, and an almost-intact commissary or warehouse.

Ehrenberg and several others entered a stone guardhouse which soon bore the brunt of fire from Mexican artillery.

Inside the stone guardhouse, built in 1866, is an example of an Army all-terrain vehicle, 19th-century style -a four-mule escort wagon.

A gray stone guardhouse stood just inside the gate, shaped like a six pointed star lying on its side.

The entrance was marked by a crumbling stone guardhouse with no glass in the windows and a door hanging half off its hinges.