Padgett-Thomas Barracks is the oldest barracks on the campus, having been completed in 1922. It was named for Colonel J. G. Padgett, a member of the Board of Visitors and a 1892 graduate, and for Colonel John Pulaski Thomas, Citadel 1893, member of the Board of Visitors from 1915 to 1949 and its chairman from 1925-1949. The building, which serves as a model for all the barracks, is designed so that the center is a quadrangle onto which each room opens, and in each of the four corners is a spiral stairway. Adjacent to the east sally port is the guard room. The dominant feature of the barracks is the tower which rises above the fourth story and overlooks the parade ground to the east. The last refurbishing of the barracks took place in 1977.
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