Oswego Armory, Oswego

Name: Oswego Armory
Address: Oswego, United States

#12 among attractions in Oswego

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Oswego Armory is a historic National Guard armory located at Oswego in Oswego County, New York. It is a brick and stone castle-like structure built in 1906–1908. It was designed by State architect George L. Heins. It consists of a 2+1⁄2-story administration building with an attached large, gable-roofed drill shed. The building features a 5-story octagonal tower at the northwest corner. ()

Built: 1906 (118 years ago)Coordinates: 43°27'14"N, 76°30'35"W

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Oswego Armory – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Fort Ontario, Richardson-Bates House, H. Lee White Marine Museum, Oswego Public Library.

0.8 miN
Museum, Forts and castles
Fort Ontario, Oswego
22 min walk • Fort Ontario is an American historic bastion fort situated by the City of Oswego in Oswego County, New York. It is owned by the state of New York and operated as a museum known as Fort Ontario State Historic Site.
~1670 ftE
Specialty museum, Museum, History museum
Richardson-Bates House, Oswego
9 min walk • Richardson-Bates House is a historic home located at Oswego in Oswego County, New York. It is constructed primarily of brick and built in two stages. The main section is a 2+1⁄2-story, Tuscan Villa style brick residence with a gable roof and 4-story tower designed by architect Andrew Jackson Warner about 1867.
0.7 miNW
Museum, Maritime museum
H. Lee White Marine Museum, Oswego
19 min walk • The H. Lee White Marine Museum is located in Oswego, New York. It was founded in 1982 by Rosemary Sinnett Nesbitt, a local professor and the City of Oswego Historian. Nesbitt retired from directorship of the museum in 2008 after completing 25 years of service.
~1330 ftNE
Library
Oswego Public Library, Oswego
7 min walk • Oswego City Library is a historic library building located at Oswego in Oswego County, New York. It has also been known as the Oswego School District Public Library. It was built in about 1855 and is a two-story brick structure over a full basement.
~660 ftNW
City tours, Walking tours, Food tours
Oswego City Hall, Oswego
4 min walk • Oswego City Hall is a historic city hall located at Oswego in Oswego County, New York. It was built in 1870 and is a 2+1⁄2-story masonry, mansarded structure with a distinctive central clock tower. It was designed by architect Horatio Nelson White.
~1080 ftNW
Concerts and shows, Theater
Oswego Theater, Oswego
6 min walk • Oswego Theater, now known as Oswego 7 Cinemas, is a historic movie theater located at Oswego in Oswego County, New York. It was designed in 1940 in the Art Deco style and opened in 1941. The front features bands of yellow, red, and dark red brick that create broad horizontal and perpendicular belts.
0.7 miN
Harbor
Port of Oswego, Oswego
18 min walk • The Port of Oswego is the main waterfront area of the City of Oswego in Oswego County, New York. Over the course of its history, the Port of Oswego has been the focus of military conflict and conquest, asite of record trade revenue, and a significant part in the History of American expansion and industrialism.
0.7 miNE
Museum, History museum
Safe Haven Museum and Education Center, Oswego
18 min walk • The Safe Haven Museum and Education Center is a museum in Oswego, New York that tells the story of 982 mainly Jewish refugees who fled Europe in the U.S. Government "Safe Haven" program. They came to the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter in Oswego, New York, in August 1944.
~1600 ftNE
Architecture
Oswego County Courthouse, Oswego
8 min walk • Oswego County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located at Oswego in Oswego County, New York. It was built in 1859-1860 and altered in 1891 and again in 1962. The two story building rises above a cruciform plan and is constructed of load bearing masonry walls faced with smooth ashlar limestone.
0.6 miNW
43°27'41"N • 76°30'51"W
Oswego Valley Railroad Association and Oswego Railroad Museum, Oswego
15 min walk • Specialty museum, Museum
0.7 miNW
Ship
Nash, Oswego
19 min walk • Nash is a World War II U.S. Army Large Tug class seagoing tugboat built as hull #298 at Jakobson Shipyard, Oyster Bay NY as a Design 271 steel-hulled Large Tug delivered November, 1943. Originally named Major Elisha K. Henson, in 1946 she was renamed John F. Nash by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

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Nearby attractions include Oswego City Hall, Oswego (4 min walk), Kingsford Historic District, Oswego (5 min walk), Oswego Theater, Oswego (6 min walk), Buckhout-Jones Building, Oswego (6 min walk).