{"nrhp_refnum":"91001696","name":"Harrisburg 19th Street Armory","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1313 S. 19th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Harrisburg","county":"Dauphin County","state":"PA","lat":40.25062154600005,"lon":-76.85221634599998,"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 stucco-covered concrete armory building at 19th Street in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, built in 1938 in the Moderne style with a modified T plan. A 1974 L-shaped addition was built on its south end and southeast corner.","why_significant":"The armory is one of seventeen Pennsylvania armories constructed in 1938 and is significant in the context of Pennsylvania's military history as a distinctive building type. It served the Pennsylvania National Guard for storage, meeting and training, and its interior contains spaces typical of T-plan armories, including a drill hall. The nomination states it retains good integrity apart from the 1974 addition.","narrative":"Built in 1938 in the Moderne style, the Harrisburg 19th Street Armory is a stucco-covered concrete building set into a slight hill that slopes upward toward its rear. Its modified T plan places administrative rooms in the exposed basement and first floor of the front section, with a garage on the first floor and a drill hall on the second floor of the rear section. The drill hall is supported by steel flat Pratt trusses and has concrete block walls and a wood floor. A concrete wall with chevron, cannon and \"PNG\" designs fronts the building and is original to the 1938 construction. Edmund George Good, Jr. of Harrisburg designed the armory, one of seventeen Pennsylvania armories built that year. It is significant for its association with the Pennsylvania National Guard, which used it for storage, meetings and training, and as a representative example of the armory building type. In 1974 Carl J. Schmitt and Son of Wilkes-Barre added an annex on the south side and southeast corner.","period_of_significance":"1938-1940","architect_builder":"Good, Jr., Edmund George; Schmitt, Carl J. and Son","architectural_style":"Moderne","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 17:11:35.84878-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/91001696.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001696/e47fbd5af2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001696/e47fbd5af2-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harrisburg_19th_Street_Armory.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harrisburg_19th_Street_Armory.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71992876","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrisburg_19th_Street_Armory","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5665202"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/dauphin-county/harrisburg-19th-street-armory-91001696/"}