Blairsville Armory Explained

Blairsville Armory
Location:119 N. Walnut St., Blairsville, Pennsylvania
Coordinates:40.4319°N -79.265°W
Built:1909
Architect:Wilkins, W.G. & Co.
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Architecture:Romanesque
Added:December 22, 1989
Refnum:89002069

Blairsville Armory is a historic National Guard armory located at Blairsville, Indiana County, Pennsylvania. It was designed by Pittsburgh architects W.G. Wilkins & Co. It was built in 1909, and is a T-shaped, two-story, three-bay-wide and nine-bay-deep, castle-like building in the Romanesque Revival style. The front section is the flat-roofed administration building, with a gable roofed drill hall behind. It front facade features a central arched entrance with a five-sided, two-story bay window on the right side.[1]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania. CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Searchable database. 2011-12-04. 2007-07-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20070721014609/https://www.dot7.state.pa.us/ce/SelectWelcome.asp. dead. Note: This includes Web site: [{{NRHP-PA|H096439_01H.pdf}} National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Blairsville Armory]. 2011-11-07. Kristine M. Wilson. PDF. August 1989.