The White Plains Armory is a historic building in

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, in

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. Located at 65 Mitchell Place/35 South Broadway, the building was built to serve as a

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.White Plains Armory

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. Construction of the building began in 1909 and was completed in 1910. The building was designed by architect

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. The building was 31,612 square feet and takes up three-quarters of an acre. 49th Separate Company/Company L, 10th Infantry Regiment occupied the armory from 1910 to 1939. From April 1924 to November 1929, the White Plains Armory was the temporary headquarters of Troop K of the

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, after a March 3, 1924 fire destroyed the troop's headquarters at Gedney Farms.Frank Goderre, ''Images of America: New York State Police Troop K'' (Arcadia Publishing, 2007), pp. 9, 18, 27-28. The police troop left the Armory in November 1929 after a new headquarters in

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was completed. Subsequently, the building's tenants were the 106th Infantry Regiment and then the Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, Company D, 212th Field Artillery. It is located on the site of the first

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where the

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was read on July 11, 1776. ''See also:'' It was added to the

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in 1980. The building was vacated in 1977. In 1982, it was converted to Armory Plaza, a

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complex with a

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on first floor.Armory Plaza
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{{National Register of Historic Places in New York Armories on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Infrastructure completed in 1910 Buildings and structures in White Plains, New York 1910 establishments in New York (state) National Register of Historic Places in Westchester County, New York