Sixty-Ninth Regiment Armory
- Architect
- Richard Howland Hunt
- Style
- Beaux-Arts
- City
- Manhattan, NY
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The 69th Regiment Armory, at 68 Lexington Avenue, was completed in 1906 to a design by Hunt & Hunt in the Beaux-Arts style for the U.S. Army National Guard. It was the first armory built in New York City that was not modeled on a medieval fortress.
the building
Drill shed and administration wing. The building is divided into a drill shed to the west, with a brick facade, limestone trim, and a barrel vault, and a three-story administration building to the east with a brick-and-limestone facade, a large arch facing Lexington Avenue, and a double-height mansard roof.
the style
Hunt & Hunt's Beaux-Arts design broke with the medieval-fortress tradition of earlier armories, giving the 69th Regiment a civic, classically detailed building instead.
More on Beaux-Artsthe architect
Richard Howland Hunt designed the armory as part of the firm of Hunt & Hunt.
significance
The armory is a National Historic Landmark and NYC Individual Landmark (LP-01228), also listed on the National Register of Historic Places and New York State Register of Historic Places; it was designated a NYC Individual Landmark on April 12, 1983.
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- Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower
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