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Blairsville Armory is a historic
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located at Blairsville, Indiana County, Pennsylvania. It was designed by Pittsburgh architects W.G. Wilkins & Co. It was built in 1909, and is a "T"-shaped, two-story, three-bays wide and nine-bays deep, castle-like building in the
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style. The front section is the flat-roofed administration building, with a gable roofed drill hall behind. It front facade features a central arched entrance with a five-sided, two-story bay window on the right side. ''Note:'' This includes It was added to the
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in 1989.


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{{National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Armories on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Romanesque Revival architecture in Pennsylvania Infrastructure completed in 1909 Buildings and structures in Indiana County, Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in Indiana County, Pennsylvania