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Blairsville Armory

Coordinates: 40°25′55″N 79°15′54″W / 40.43194°N 79.26500°W / 40.43194; -79.26500
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Blairsville Armory
Blairsville Armory is located in Pennsylvania
Blairsville Armory
Blairsville Armory is located in the United States
Blairsville Armory
Location119 N. Walnut St., Blairsville, Pennsylvania
Coordinates40°25′55″N 79°15′54″W / 40.43194°N 79.26500°W / 40.43194; -79.26500
Area0.2 acres (0.081 ha)
Built1909
ArchitectWilkins, W.G. & Co.; Et al.
Architectural styleRomanesque
MPSPennsylvania National Guard Armories MPS
NRHP reference No.89002069[1]
Added to NRHPDecember 22, 1989

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.[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania". CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on 2007-07-21. Retrieved 2011-12-04. Note: This includes Kristine M. Wilson (August 1989). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Blairsville Armory" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-11-07.