{"nrhp_refnum":"91001693","name":"Bethlehem Armory","other_names":["Floyd Simons Armory"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"301 Prospect St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bethlehem","county":"Lehigh County","state":"PA","lat":40.61923430500008,"lon":-75.38739541899997,"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 sloping corner lot in the City of Bethlehem, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, built in 1930 in the Art Deco style with later maintenance additions from 1938 and 1968.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the armory is significant under criteria A and C. It was built for Battery D, 213th Coast Artillery of the Pennsylvania National Guard, and is one of at least nine Pennsylvania armories built between 1912 and 1938 with an I plan. It represents the armory's common role in storing, meeting and training Guard units, and is significant in the context of Pennsylvania's military history as a distinctive building type.","narrative":"Built in 1930 in Bethlehem, the brick armory was designed by the Bethlehem firm Lovelace and Spillman and built by Stoneback and Nase for Battery D, 213th Coast Artillery of the Pennsylvania National Guard. Its Art Deco main section is laid out on an I plan, with a drill hall set between administrative offices at the front and a kitchen and locker room at the rear. A one-story maintenance section was added in 1938, a Works Progress Administration project designed by Allentown architect George E. Yundt, and a garage addition followed in 1968. The building is significant for its role in serving the Pennsylvania National Guard for storage, meeting and training. It is one of at least nine Pennsylvania armories built between 1912 and 1938 on an I plan, and it is valued as a distinctive example of that building type within the state's military history. The drill hall measures 7,822 square feet and has a wood floor and riveted steel Fink trusses.","period_of_significance":"1930-1939","architect_builder":"Lovelace and Spillman (architects); George E. Yundt (architect of 1938 addition); Stoneback and Nase (builder)","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 17:11:37.427928-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/91001693.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001693/94a01ab91a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001693/94a01ab91a-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bethlehem_Armory_Lehigh_Co_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:Bethlehem_Armory_Lehigh_Co_PA.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"79002307","name":"Lehigh Canal; Allentown to Hopeville Section","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/lehigh-canal-allentown-to-hopeville-section-79002307/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71993338","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlehem_Armory","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4898026"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lehigh-county/bethlehem-armory-91001693/"}