Water Shops Armory (Springfield, Massachusetts)

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The Water Shops Armory was part of the Springfield Armory buildings in Springfield, Massachusetts. The original Armory stretched over two city blocks in what was known as the Hill Shops (where the Historic Site now is accompanied by the Springfield Technical Community College which occupies most of the 22 original buildings). In addition, a city block a mile south on a tributary river, the Mill River, is the Water Shops where the heavy metal forging & machining was done as well as gun stock shaping. It is now a privately-owned industrial site. The building was originaly a two story building until Friday june 17 1988 when a fire destroyed part of the top floors. The building was built in two differnt sections the first was built as an armory in 1858 the second section wich paralleled Allen Street built in 1901 is where the fire happend.

An image of what it used to look like before the fire can be seen here.
www.cardcow.com/images/set13/card17039_fr.jpg

See also en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield_Armory
See also www.interfire.org/res_file/pdf/Tr-027.pdf