The New Hampshire State Union Armory

The building can be found at 60 Pleasant Street was built in 1904 to store the New Hampshire State Union Armory. The Romanesque architecture can be seen on the head house that looks out on Pleasant Street and the drill hall that extends behind it all the way to West Central Street. The two-story structure has a fortress-like main entrance that is framed by two massive brick pilasters. All four outer walls are made of brick and the left side wall is attached to the DoubleTree Hotel entrance on Pleasant Street.

Alfred A. Collins, the person who built the arsenal, was said to be “one of the best-known citizens in New Hampshire” when he passed away. He is listed as an engineer, builder, and architect on the National Register of Historic Places for the N.H. State Union Armory in Manchester. It seems that the armory was used from 1900 to 1924, then it became the Hermsdorf Manufacturing Building which was a plastics manufactory. Now, it is privately owned and used commercially. There are no markers to tell what it originally was.

New Hampshire State Union Armory - Manchester, NH - U.S. National Register of Historic Places on Waymarking.com, Waymarking.com. December 7th 2007. Accessed April 28th 2021. https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/wm2QGG_New_Hampshire_State_Union_Armory__Manchester_NH.

New Hampshire State Union Armory, en.google-info.cn. May 16th 2020. Accessed April 28th 2021. https://amp.en.google-info.cn/42867815/1/new-hampshire-state-union-armory.html.

New Hampshire State Union Armory, National Register of Historic Places. August 10th 1982. Accessed April 28th 2021. https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/AssetDetail?assetID=e3c8395d-c564-433e-8c33-f891015e0703.