- City:
- St. Louis, MO
- Site Type:
- Armories, Military and Public Safety
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding
- Completed:
- 1937
- Designer:
- A. Osburg
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- Unknown
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Public Works Administration (PWA) funded the construction of the 138th Infantry Regiment Armory in St. Louis MO. Completed in 1937, the armory building has been converted to office space.
Excerpt from Missouri Armories: The Guard’s Home in Architecture and History: “On May 15, 1934, the City of St. Louis approved a bond issue to fund improvements; $15 million of the bond issue, plus a 30 percent grant from the PWA, made construction of the $1,347,000 armory possible… This armory is a large two-story building with a monitor-type roof over a large parade hall.” The Missouri National Guard declared the building surplus in 1971 and it was sold to private owners in 1987.
Source notes
Wiegers, Robert P., "Missouri Armories: The Guard's Home in Architecture and History," pp. 82-83.
https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/3676-Market-St-Saint-Louis-MO/8801080/
Site originally submitted by Barbara Pendleton on September 21, 2022.
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Esther Hodges
Roger Brauer
The Armory was completed in 1938
Was there an Armory prior to this one built in 1938. My father played basketball in a St. Louis Armory in 1929-1931. However, I have not bee able to find information on that.