23rd Regiment Armory, Military castle in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, United States.
The 23rd Regiment Armory features eight crenellated towers reaching 136 feet high, with dark red brick walls and brownish Potsdam stone decorations.
Constructed between 1891 and 1895, this fortified structure served as the second home for Brooklyn's 23rd Regiment, which formed during the American Civil War.
The entrance displays a bronze panel by sculptor J. Massey Rhind commemorating soldiers who died in World War I, installed on November 11, 1922.
The armory transformed into a homeless shelter in 1982 after the New York National Guard departed, now operating as the Bedford-Atlantic Shelter.
The building's three-story administrative section contains a 24-foot-high fireplace in the Council Room, where the Medical Society held meetings in 1921.
Location: Brooklyn
Inception: 1890s
Architectural style: Romanesque Revival architecture
Address: 1322 Bedford Avenue
GPS coordinates: 40.67844,-73.95283
Latest update: May 12, 2025 08:06
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