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PS052-04.jpg (73885 bytes) New York Architecture Images-  Park Slope, Brooklyn

14th Regiment Armory, N.Y National Guard Landmark

architect

William A. Mundell.

location

1402 Eighth Ave., bet. 14th and 15th Sts. W side.

date

1895.

style

Romanesque Revival

type

Government

construction

brick
Picturesque massing, including battered walls, machicolations, and other heroic brick detailing, makes this a special event among the rows of brownstones. Here stands a tower where boiling oil might be poured on mythical attackers. The statue of the doughboy remembers World War I (1923, Anton Scaaf).

 

 

 

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  with thanks to "The AIA Guide to New York",