The New York State

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was built in 1880 on Broadway in Newburgh,

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, United States. Designed by John A. Wood, it housed a local unit of the

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. In the 1930s the Guard moved to a newer armory on South William Street and the old building fell vacant and became property of the city. It was nearly gutted by fire in the 1970s but remained standing, an eyesore in Newburgh's Lower Broadway area. In 1981 it was added to the

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, which helped prevent its demolition. It also became one of over 2,000

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to the East End Historic District when that was added to the Register four years later. Nothing was done to refurbish it until the late 1990s, when the city sold it to

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for a dollar and the county's former courthouse. The county brought in Robert Carchietta's Gemma Development to restore it. The project won the Commissioner's Annual Private Sector Achievement Award from

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, then-commissioner of the

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. The company spent $28,000 on a

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door for the building, which now houses the busy city office of the county's Social Services department, as well as its

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officers and the

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References

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