{"nrhp_refnum":"91001692","name":"Berwick Armory","other_names":["Brigadier General Edward L. Davis Armory"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"201 Pine St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Berwick","county":"Columbia County","state":"PA","lat":41.057754601000056,"lon":-76.23324368199997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-11-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A brick armory building on a corner lot in the Borough of Berwick, Columbia County, Pennsylvania, consisting of a one-story drill hall built in 1922 and a two-story Tudor Revival administrative wing added to its south end in 1930.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the armory is significant under criteria A and C at the statewide level, for its role in serving the Pennsylvania National Guard and as a representative example of the state armory building type. The form notes it retains good integrity and that its design was carried out by architects who designed several armories in Pennsylvania.","narrative":"Built in 1922 as a drill hall with administrative rooms in its basement, the Berwick Armory served Company I and Company M of the 109th Infantry, Pennsylvania National Guard. Joseph F. Kuntz of the W.G. Wilkins Company of Pittsburgh designed the original building in the Craftsman style, using brick over a concrete foundation, with a gambrel roof over the drill hall. In 1930 a two-story administrative wing in the Tudor Revival style was added to the south end, giving the building a T plan. Thomas H. Atherton of Wilkes-Barre designed the addition, which has stone sills, lintels, and quoins and a gabled parapet with decorative brickwork. The drill hall measures roughly 60 by 100 feet and has a steel-girder roof. The building was recognized for its military history in Pennsylvania and as a distinctive example of an armory, a building type that housed storage, meeting, and training space for the state's guard units. A 1972 rehabilitation changed the basement, windows, and some doors.","period_of_significance":"1922-1940","architect_builder":"Joseph F. Kuntz of the W.G. Wilkins Company, Pittsburgh (original design); Thomas H. Atherton of Wilkes-Barre (1930 addition)","architectural_style":"Craftsman; Tudor Revival","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 17:11:35.997741-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/91001692.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001692/47484114eb-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001692/47484114eb-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Armory_Berwick_PA.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:Armory_Berwick_PA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71992848","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwick_Armory","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4895981"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/columbia-county/berwick-armory-91001692/"}