Armory Hall/ Texas National Guard – Houston

Directory listings of 1912 indicate that this concrete structure was Armory Hall, used by the Third Battalion, Fourth Infantry, Company K. The local guard was sent to the Mexican border in 1916 and was re-mobilized the following year at Camp Bowie for service in France. The building was purchased in 1918 by Greines Furniture Co. and used as a furniture warehouse until the 1950s. The one-story concrete structure, rectangular in plan, has a segmentally arched entry with double doors clad in sheet metal; pairs of double-hung windows topped by segmental arches flank the door. This structure should be the focus of further research to clarify its early history as the home of a local unit of the Texas National Guard.

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