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Coraopolis Armory

armory in Coraopolis, United States of America

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ5169651 ↗
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Coraopolis Armory is an armory designed by architect Thomas Roy Hinckley and located at 835 5th Avenue in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1938, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 14, 1991.

The Pennsylvania National Guard took custody of the building on December 10, 1938. The previous armory was floated down the Ohio and Monongahela Rivers.

It houses the Headquarters Company, 28th Signal Battalion, Pennsylvania National Guard Army Reserve.

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This entry incorporates text from “Coraopolis Armory” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.