Warehouse #3 at St. Denis was destroyed in an air raid on the night of September 15-16th, 1918. The warehouse was originally intended to be the office of the Department Quartermaster and was one of the largest buildings in or around Paris. It had three quarters of a million square feet of storage space and was four stories high, built from structural steel taken from the 1900 Paris World Fair. An incendiary bomb struck the building just behind the clock tower, causing a fire that consumed the building within two hours. This information was issued by the in Paris, France and was held by t
Warehouse #3 at St. Denis was destroyed in an air raid on the night of September 15-16th, 1918. The warehouse was originally intended to be the office of the Department Quartermaster and was one of the largest buildings in or around Paris. It had three quarters of a million square feet of storage space and was four stories high, built from structural steel taken from the 1900 Paris World Fair. An incendiary bomb struck the building just behind the clock tower, causing a fire that consumed the building within two hours. This information was issued by the in Paris, France and was held by the censor on October 2, 1918.
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