Hoosick Falls Armory
Hoosick Falls Armory is an armory of New York National Guard at the Church Street ( New York State Route 22 ) in Hoosick Falls , New York in the United States . The red brick structure has a fort-like tower and was built at the end of the 19th century.
The building is one of several armories designed by the architect Isaac Perry . It is one of his earlier armories and stylistically more reserved than many of the buildings he designed later in his career. It has remained largely unchanged since it was built. The military units of the New York Militia, which were first set up in the Civil War and whose base is settled here, fought under General John J. Pershing on the Mexican border in 1916 and in Belgium during the First World War . During the Second World War they took part in the Battle of Saipan (1944). Today the armory is the home of Company C , 1st Battalion , 101st Cavalry (Armor).
The armory was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. Since the auction of the 18th Separate Company Armory in Glens Falls , the armories in Hoosick Falls and Gloversville are the only ones in the Capital District that are still in military use.
building
The armory stands on a flat plot of around 1000 m² on the northwest corner of the intersection of Church Street and Elm Street, southwest of downtown . The area surrounding the armory is mixed (commercial and residential buildings). On the other side of Church Street are residential buildings, to the south is a car dealership and behind the armory is the Immaculate Conception Church. There is a small lawn in front of the building and behind it there is a small parking lot between the armory and the church.
The building itself is a large, rectangular brick building with a gable roof . The load-bearing walls rest on a limestone base . The half-story Westfront includes spaces for administrative purposes, the two-storey eight yokes exciting rear covers the magazine. All wings of the building have folded sheet metal roofs.
At the front two towers flanking the three Jochen existing facade . The main entrance is in the northernmost field of the facade and has a large double door made of steel. Side light windows and a semicircular fighter window with a protective grille frame the entrance. The other two bays have three-part barred arched windows. The windows on the second floor are similar, but arranged in pairs; in the pediment triangle there is a single group of three windows. The verge cornice has suggested machicolations .
The two-story tower on the southwest corner has narrow windows and stone window sills, flared brick lintels and a conical roof. The higher northwest tower is designed as a defense tower and has similar windows, but they are shorter on the third floor and in the attic. A tinned parapet sits above it .
On the north and south facades of the roll call hall, brick pillars separate the windows. Two yokes are provided with double doors. The rear facade is empty. The roof is interrupted on both sides by three dormers .
Some of the original structural features have been preserved within the armory. In the front hall, this includes the oak staircase, lockers and some of the doors. The offices on the second floor are intact, but modern paneling has been installed over the original stucco walls . The attic was changed significantly. Some of the original ceilings made of pressed metal are preserved in the basement, otherwise the ceilings have been almost completely renewed. In the roll call hall, the hardwood floors, the brick walls and the bare steel beams are in their original condition.
history
The volunteer militia had been based in Hoosick Falls since 1835. The unit fought in the First and Second Battles of Bull Run, the Peninsula Campaign , Manassas Gap , Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville during the Civil War . In 1885 the unit was set up as the 32nd Separate Company. In 1889, it moved into its headquarters in the Hoosick Falls Armory, one of 20 armories in New York State designed by the state-employed architect Isaac Perry . It was one of Perry's earlier works. As with the armories he built later, the influences of medieval military architecture and contemporary Richardson Romanesque can also be seen in Hoosick Falls , but the building is more reserved and has a less imposing effect on its surroundings.
In 1892, the unit was called into active service during the Switchmen's Strike in Buffalo. Six years later, the National Guards volunteered in the Spanish-American War and became Company M of the 2nd New York Infantry. For the duration of the hostilities, they were barracked in Florida, as the transfer to Cuba was not possible. Many developed tropical diseases and two of the soldiers died of typhus .
The unit was next ordered into the military when President Woodrow Wilson responded to Pancho Villa's border incursions into New Mexico and Arizona in 1916 and placed 100,000 National Guards under the command of the federal government of the United States. This increased level of readiness made mobilization easier in the First World War a year later. The troops from Hoosick Falls were combined with a unit from Troy and incorporated into the 27th Division as Company M of the 105th Infantry. The unit took part with British troops in Belgium in the attack on the Siegfriedstellung of the German troops, where they suffered heavy losses. One of the fallen was First Lieutenant William B. Turner , who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for taking out several German machine gun positions with his own hands.
In October 1940, the unit, now Company A of the 105th Infantry, was mobilized again as the United States was expected to join the war. The unit's soldiers did not engage in combat operations until 1943 when they took part in the Battle of Makin in the Gilbert Islands on the side of the 165th Infantry . They later fought with the Marines in Saipan and Okinawa . In December 1945, a few months after the war ended, the units were returned to state orders.
The 27th became an armored unit and the 105th became the 205th armored unit, with the Hoosick Falls-based troops becoming Company C. In 1970 the 205th merged with the newly formed 210th armored. In 1980, a lack of staff led to the armory being shut down for a year. In 1993 the 210th was reorganized as the 101st Cavalry (Armor). As such, the unit still exists today.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c New York State Armory History: Hoosick Falls Armory ( English ) New York Division of Military and Naval Affairs . May 20, 2003. Retrieved November 12, 2009.
- ^ Leigh Hornbeck: Glens Falls armory up for auction (English) . In: Albany Times-Union , October 3, 2009. Retrieved October 25, 2009. “ In the Capital Region, only the Gloversville and Hoosick Falls armories are still in use. "
- ^ A b c d e Nancy Todd: National Register of Historic Places nomination, Hoosick Falls Armory ( English ) New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation . December 1994. Archived from the original on December 10, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 12, 2009.
- ↑ Details about the strike here
- ^ A b Phil Leonard: History of the New York National Guard in Hoosick Falls ( English ) Hoosick Township Historical Society. April 2000. Retrieved October 26, 2009.
Coordinates: 42 ° 53 ′ 58 " N , 73 ° 21 ′ 5" W.