Marker Details

Houston Light Guard Armory

3816 Caroline

Houston , 77004

Notes:

Light Guard Armory has been purchased by the Buffalo Soldiers Museum; in Aug. 2013 Al Davis contacted Cpt. Paul Matthews has now delivered this marker to the museum; the Houston Light Guard marker # 10696 is installed on the exterior wall, on the east side of building

Directions: The Houston Light Guard Armory building is two blocks east of Fannin and one block east of San Jacinto, on Caroline Street between Alabama and Truxillo Street; on block south of the HCC Main Campus; the marker is mounted on an exterior wall to the right (facing) the south/main entrance to Buffalo Soldiers Museum

Key Time Period: 1920 - 1940 Post-WW I & Depression

Corretions/New Research:

Marker Text: Designed by noted Houston architect Alfred C. Finn, the Armory was constructed in 1925 to replace an 1892 building that had become obsolete. Finn detailed the building to suggest a late renaissance period neo-Gothic English masonry, represented by the alternating bands of brick and stone and elaborate relief panels above the arched entrance. The building has been owned by the Houston Light Guard, the State of Texas, and the Houston Community College.

Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1992

Marker Type: RTHL Marker

Historical Org: Texas Historical Commission (THC)

Key Map Information: 493 T

GPS Coordinates: 29 44.171, 95 22.671

Precinct No: 1

Marker No: 10697