Many U.S. cities have a legacy National Guard armory, but not every city has made such a building work in modern times.
The conundrum is such that you can find a 67-page document online produced by the National Trust for Historic Preservation National Guard Bureau, titled, “Still Serving: Reusing America’s Historic National Guard Armories.”
That report notes that some of the buildings, quite grand in scale, have become among the world’s most endangered sites, alongside “Egypt’s Valley of the Kings and the Teotihuacan Pyramid in Mexico.”…