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Seventh Regimentarmory – Antique Wall Art

Seventh Regimentarmory — historic image
Seventh Regimentarmory. Historic image from the Barns & Farms collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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The Seventh Regiment Armory stands on Park Avenue in Manhattan, a large brick and stone drill hall built for the Seventh Regiment of the New York National Guard. The regiment was known as a militia unit with strong ties to the city's wealthy families. Designed by Charles W. Clinton and completed around 1880, the building combined a vast drill floor with social rooms, so it hosted balls and public gatherings as well as military training. Its turreted, castle-like silhouette made it one of the Upper East Side's best-known landmarks. Dedicated armories like this were common in American cities in the late 1800s, when militia units needed proper space to train.

Original scan2,110 × 1,810 px · prints to 7 × 6 in at 300 dpi
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