Built in 1923, this historic structure is a three-story, U-shaped, yellow brick building that was designed in the Classical Revival style. It measures thirteen bays by twenty bays, and includes a drill hall, classrooms, offices, storage, and stable areas.[2]
Artillery Park was constructed adjacent to the Armory and opened in May 1925 and was the home to Wiles-Barre minor league baseball until 1955. The ballpark was also designed by architect Thomas Atherton. The Armory continues in the present day to stand beyond Artillery Park's left field wall.
On September 11, 1950, thirty-three guardsmen from the 109th Field Artillery Regiment were killed in a train accident near Coshocton, Ohio. Over the following days, the dead were moved to the Kingston Armory. Once there, the 109th Field Artillery Battalion relinquished the remains of their fellow soldiers to their families.[3]
