- City:
- Richmond, KY
- Site Type:
- Civic Facilities, Military and Public Safety, Armories
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Completed:
- 1942
- Designer:
- Weber & Weber
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
From contributor Charles Swaney: “Atypical National Guard Armory, which from the front façade is wider than usual, and which has predominant horizontal concrete bands across the 2nd story. The roof is flat. A basement is accessed from the rear.” The building is now the Richmond Recreation Center.
Source notes
National Register of Historic Places entry.
Site originally submitted by Charles Swaney on March 27, 2015.
Additional contributions by Ernest Everett Blevins, MFA, May 20, 2019.
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Sharon Wilder Perkins
This building was also a skating rink for years ! I know I skated there from the time I was in the 6th grade until I graduated which was in 1965!