National Guard Armory – Portsmouth VA

City:
Portsmouth, VA

Site Type:
Armories, Military and Public Safety

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Started:
1936

Quality of Information:
Minimal

Marked:
No

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

WPA Constructed National Guard Armory, built in Portsmouth, VA. GIS gives a sale (completion?) date of December 5, 1936.

Source notes

National Register of Historic Places, (https://www.nps.gov/nr/feature/places/pdfs/16000798.pdf), accessed November 2019.

Portsmouth (https://www2.portsmouthva.gov/portsmap/?CPN=00810041), accessed November 2019.

Site originally submitted by Ross Patterson on November 22, 2019.

Location Info

900 Elm Avenue
Portsmouth, VA 23704

Coordinates: 36.8321809, -76.3131358

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One comment on “National Guard Armory – Portsmouth VA”

  1. Joseph Smith April 26, 2023

    Thanks for posting this info clip-I came across it when I looked up the building. My grandfather’s ship had a crew dance at the Armory on Dec 19th 1944 just before they sailed for Okinawa. I have 2 photo’s of the crew.
    V/r
    JS

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  1. Joseph Smith April 26, 2023

    Thanks for posting this info clip-I came across it when I looked up the building. My grandfather’s ship had a crew dance at the Armory on Dec 19th 1944 just before they sailed for Okinawa. I have 2 photo’s of the crew.
    V/r
    JS

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