[3] Additional facilities are a "computer resource room",[1] a bookstore with gifts, and a restaurant.

[5][6] In 1894 the Gettysburg Cyclorama was displayed in a tent at The Angle[7] Groundbreaking for a building on Cemetery Hill occurred in 1912.

During the post-WWII increase of tourism, Mission 66 improvements for the NPS 50th anniversary included the construction of the modernist Cyclorama Building at Gettysburg, designed by Richard Neutra, as the first NPS visitor center for the battlefield.

Plans in 1973 for a projected tourist increase included an Oak Ridge visitor center and an Eisenhower Parkway on the west.

[11] The building was demolished in 2008 after the new Gettysburg Museum and Visitor Center was completed.