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Pikesville Armory

arsenal in Maryland, United States of America

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ7193663 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Pikesville Armory was built in 1903 to support the expansion of the National Guard program. The second-oldest armory in Maryland, it was designed by architects Wyatt and Nolting.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Pikesville Armory” is arsenal in Maryland, United States of America. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Pikesville, Armory and arsenal, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1903, 1985—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Pikesville, Armory and arsenal is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7193663. Authority coordinates are 39.369, -76.722. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1903 and 1985.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pikesville 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.