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The Seventh Regiment Armory, also known as Park Avenue Armory, is a historic National Guard armory building located at 643 Park Avenue in the
The main facade of the administration building faces Park Avenue between 66th & 67th Streets, with the large vaulted space for the drill hall in the center of the block. The administration building has provisions for a reception room, a library, veterans room and staff offices for ten regimental companies. Architects and interior designers of the American Aesthetic Movement were commissioned to furnish the rooms and company quarters. The library is known as the Silver Room or "Trophy Room" and was designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany who worked with architect
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. The building is a brick and stone structure built in 1880 and designed in the Gothic Revival style by Charles Clinton.
The building was made a National Historic Landmark
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in 1986. National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination, undated, by Carolyn Pitts National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination
Design
The building was designed byarchitect
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Charles Clinton in the Gothic Revival style and dedicated in 1880. The builder was R. L. Darragh and bricklayers were Van Dolson & Arnott. It is one of the two remaining armories in the United States to be built and furnished with private funds. It originally served as the headquarters and administrative building for the 7th New York Militia Regiment, known as the ''Silk Stocking Regiment'' due to the disproportionate number of its members who were part of the city's social elite. The building is known for detailed interior rooms that are furnished with ornamental Ornamental may refer to:
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woodwork, marble and stained glass.
The main facade of the administration building faces Park Avenue between 66th & 67th Streets, with the large vaulted space for the drill hall in the center of the block. The administration building has provisions for a reception room, a library, veterans room and staff offices for ten regimental companies. Architects and interior designers of the American Aesthetic Movement were commissioned to furnish the rooms and company quarters. The library is known as the Silver Room or "Trophy Room" and was designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany who worked with architect Stanford White
Stanford White (November 9, 1853 – June 25, 1906) was an American architect. He was also a partner in the architectural firm McKim, Mead & White, one of the most significant Beaux-Arts firms. He designed many houses for the rich, in additio ...
as a consultant on the project. The masterpiece of the armory building is the Veterans Room, also known as the Tiffany Room, with hand carved wood panelling and coffer
A coffer (or coffering) in architecture is a series of sunken panels in the shape of a square, rectangle, or octagon in a ceiling, soffit or vault.
A series of these sunken panels was often used as decoration for a ceiling or a vault, al ...
ed ceiling in the Viking Revival style. Other significant craftsmen with work in the building include Kimbel and Cabus, Alexander Roux, Francis Davis Millet, and the Herter Brothers.
Use
Former
Due to its acoustic properties, the building was used for the historic live broadcast of the radio play '' The Fall of the City'' by Archibald MacLeish in 1937. From 1900 until 1963 the venue hosted the U.S. National Indoor Tennis Championships.Current
The Armory is currently leased by and home to Park Avenue Armory, a nonprofit arts organization whose mission is to revitalize the landmark as an alternative arts space. Other organizations using the space include: * The 53rd Digital Liaison Detachment of the New York Army National Guard, a unit carrying on the heritage of the 7th Regiment. * The Veterans of the 7th Regiment * The Veteran Corps of Artillery (VCA), a ceremonial unit which was organized on November 25, 1790 ( Evacuation Day) by American Revolutionary War Veterans. * The Lenox Hill Neighborhood House Women's Mental Health Shelter Park Avenue Armory has a partnership withWilliamsburg High School for Architecture and Design
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, a 9-12 college preparatory school in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
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.
See also
* Champagne Unit *List of National Historic Landmarks in New York City
This article lists National Historic Landmarks in New York City, of which there are 116. One of the New York City sites is also a national monument, and there are two more national monuments in NYC as well. These are listed further below. It al ...
* List of armories and arsenals in New York City and surrounding counties
* List of New York City Designated Landmarks in Manhattan from 14th to 59th Streets
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* List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
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* National Register of Historic Places listings in Manhattan from 14th to 59th Streets
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* Squadron A Armory
The Squadron A Armory is a former United States Army armory and was the home base of Squadron A. It took up the whole block between Madison Avenue and Park Avenue, between 94th and 95th Street. It was therefore also known as the Madison Avenue Armo ...
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