{"nrhp_refnum":"91000511","name":"Hamburg Armory","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"N. Fifth St., S of I-78","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hamburg","county":"Berks County","state":"PA","lat":40.56148525900005,"lon":-75.98005300799997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-05-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A brick Art Deco armory building on a large corner lot in the Borough of Hamburg, Berks County, Pennsylvania, built in 1938 on a T plan with a drill hall at the rear.","why_significant":"The armory is significant under criteria A and C as a member of the State Armory Building property type within the Pennsylvania National Guard Armories multiple property nomination. It was built as a federal public works project for Company D, 103rd Quartermaster Regiment, 28th Division of the Pennsylvania National Guard. The building retains good integrity, with only a 1972 one-story addition and a drop ceiling in the drill hall as major alterations.","narrative":"Built in 1938 as a federal public works project, the Hamburg Armory is a brick Art Deco building on a large corner lot in the Borough of Hamburg. Its administrative section, three and one-half stories tall, fronts the street with a limestone-framed central entrance inscribed \"ARMORY,\" and it steps down to three stories at each end. Behind it, a two-and-one-half story rear section houses a drill hall measuring 59 by 78 feet with a wood floor. The building was designed by Elmer H. Adams of Esterly and John M. Kostecky Jr. of Camp Hill for Company D, 103rd Quartermaster Regiment, 28th Division of the Pennsylvania National Guard. Its interior includes a rifle range, kitchen, boiler room, class room, locker rooms, offices and a vault. The armory is important as a typical example of the state's armory building type, and it has kept its original windows and interior doors. A one-story brick addition from 1972 is the main later change.","period_of_significance":"1938-1939","architect_builder":"Elmer H. Adams (architect); John M. Kostecky Jr. (architect)","architectural_style":"Art Deco","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:35.967797-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/91000511.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91000511/e80b28f375-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91000511/e80b28f375-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hamburg_Armory_BerksCo_PA_overview.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hamburg_Armory_BerksCo_PA_overview.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71992416","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg_Armory","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5644289"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/berks-county/hamburg-armory-91000511/"}