{"nrhp_refnum":"95000270","name":"Flushing Armory","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"137--158 Northern Blvd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Flushing","county":"Queens","state":"NY","lat":40.763182681000046,"lon":-73.82891495499996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-03-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Military"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A castellated brick National Guard armory at 137-58 Northern Boulevard in downtown Flushing, Queens, New York, completed in 1906 and designed by State Architect George L. Heins for the 17th Separate Company.","why_significant":"It is presented as a remarkably intact, representative early twentieth-century National Guard armory in New York State, combining a military facility, social clubhouse and civic monument in a fortress-like castellated style. It is also significant for its association with the National Guard and American military history. It was one of few New York City armories funded and designed by the state.","narrative":"Completed in 1906, the Flushing Armory is a castle-like brick building on a grassy knoll along Northern Boulevard in downtown Flushing. It combines a two-story administration building, with a five-story octagonal corner tower and a three-story round tower, with an attached one-and-a-half-story drill shed. Crenelated parapets, machicolated cornices, brownstone foundations and a massive arched entrance give it a fortress-like look. State Architect George L. Heins designed it for the 17th Separate Company, a unit tracing its roots to the Hamilton Rifles of 1839. The $82,000 project was paid for partly with proceeds from the sale of the company's earlier Amity Street armory, and it was one of the few New York City armories funded and designed by the state. It is valued as a well-preserved example of the armory building type and as a reminder of the National Guard's role in American military history. Parts of the interior were altered for housing the homeless, and by January 1995 the building stood vacant.","period_of_significance":"1906","architect_builder":"George L. Heins, State Architect","architectural_style":"Late Victorian; castellated","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"As of January 1995 the armory was vacant, after homeless facilities were removed and it was being surplussed by the Division of Military and Naval Affairs.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:51.574493-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/95000270.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000270/edb3815510-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000270/edb3815510-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Jim.henderson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flushing_Armory_west_tower_sun_jeh.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim.henderson</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:Flushing_Armory_west_tower_sun_jeh.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314472","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flushing_Armory","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5462906"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/queens/flushing-armory-95000270/"}