Hagerstown Armory is a historic armory located at 328 N. Potomac Street in Hagerstown,

Washington County, Maryland Washington County is located in the western part of the U.S. state of Maryland. As of the 2020 census, the population was 154,705. Its county seat is Hagerstown. Washington County was the first county in the United States to be named for the ...

, United States. It is a two-story Flemish bond brick structure with full basement emulating a Medieval fortification, built in 1926. The front facade features a central block offset by two, three-story towers. Tower tops are characterized by a ring of scalloped stone molding, surmounted by a ring of brick dentils, and topped by two

crenelle An embrasure (or crenel or crenelle; sometimes called gunhole in the domain of gunpowder-era architecture) is the opening in a battlement between two raised solid portions (merlons). Alternatively, an embrasure can be a space hollowed out ...

s per side with stone caps. The center section is topped by two crenelles with stone caps with stone tablet bearing the seal of the State of Maryland centered between them. It was listed on the

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in 1985. An article in the July 17, 2009 Hagerstown Herald-Mail announced that the building may soon be sold and transformed into a mental health center

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*, including photo from 1991, at Maryland Historical Trust {{National Register of Historic Places in Maryland Armories on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland Buildings and structures in Hagerstown, Maryland Infrastructure completed in 1926 National Register of Historic Places in Washington County, Maryland