14th Regiment Armory, Brooklyn
14th Regiment Armory | |
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Location |
1402 Eighth Avenue Brooklyn, New York City |
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Coordinates | 40°39′46″N 73°59′0″W / 40.66278°N 73.98333°WCoordinates: 40°39′46″N 73°59′0″W / 40.66278°N 73.98333°W |
Area | 3 acres (1.2 ha) |
Built | 1891-95 |
Architect | William A. Mundell |
Architectural style | Late Victorian |
MPS | Army National Guard Armories in New York State MPS |
NRHP Reference # | 94000367[1] |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | April 14, 1994 |
Designated NYCL | April 14, 1998 |
The 14th Regiment Armory, also known as the Eighth Avenue Armory and the Park Slope Armory, is a historic National Guard armory building located in the South Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. It is a brick and stone castle-like structure completed in 1893, and designed to be reminiscent of medieval military structures in Europe. It was designed by William Mundell and originally built for the 14th Regiment of the New York State Militia.
It consists of a two-story, flat-roofed administration building with an attached 1.5-story, barrel vaulted drill shed, spanning open space of 70,000 square feet (6,500 m2). The building features asymmetrical 3- and 4-story towers. It is constructed of brick and sits on a stone foundation of Warsaw bluestone with bluestone trim and details.[2] Since the 1980s, CAMBA, a non-profit organization based in Flatbush has operated the Park Slope Armory Women's Shelter at the Armory.[3] The building was renovated in 2007, and is used as a sports complex operated by the Prospect Park YMCA.[4]
The Armory was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994,[1] and was designated a New York City landmark in 1998.[5]
Gallery
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The central section
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View from the east
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World War I Memorial outside the main entrance features The Doughboy by Anton Scaaf (1925)[1]
- ^ White, Norval; Willensky, Elliot; Leadon, Fran (2010), AIA Guide to New York City (5th ed.), New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780195383867, p.663
See also
- List of armories and arsenals in New York City and surrounding counties
- List of New York City Landmarks
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Kings County, New York
References
Notes
- 1 2 National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
- ↑ Todd, Nancy L. (March 1994). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Eighth Avenue (14th Regiment) Armory". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2011-03-19. See also: "Accompanying 16 photos".
- ↑ Park Slope Armory Women's Shelter
- ↑ Kuntzman, Gersh (January 11, 2010). "The Park Slope Armory has opened (really!)". The Brooklyn Paper. Brooklyn. Retrieved March 19, 2011.
- ↑ New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission; Dolkart, Andrew S. (text); Postal, Matthew A. (text) (2009), Postal, Matthew A., ed., Guide to New York City Landmarks (4th ed.), New York: John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 978-0-470-28963-1, p.257
External links
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- Forgotten New York: 8th Avenue, Brooklyn
- Park Slope Armory Documentary produced by The City Concealed