Alex Hammond, New York Army National Guard. The state embarked on a flurry of armory building in the late 1800s. In many major cities, they were built to quell or discourage uprisings, with ...

The Upper West Side building — built between 1901 and 1904 and used as an armory for the First Battery of the New York National Guard — was converted to a TV studio in the 1970s, and then into ...

These days, the Armory is used for a variety of cultural purposes ranging from plays and performance art to larger-than-life art installations. The building’s three floors are characterized by ...

In 1932, architect William Haugaard was chosen to rebuild the armory. Like Perry before him, Haugaard was the official State Architect of New York. He had experience in building fortress-like ...