Park Avenue Armory

The Seventh Regiment Armory, or the Park Avenue Armory, is a National Guard armory building located on Park Avenue in Manhattan's Upper East Side neighborhood. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1986. The armory, built in 1880, is a Gothic Revival made of brick and stone.

Part palace, part industrial shed, Park Avenue Armory fills a critical void in the cultural ecology of New York, supporting unconventional works in the performing and visual arts that cannot be fully realized in a traditional proscenium theater, concert hall, or white wall gallery. With its soaring 55,000-square-foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall and an array of exuberant period rooms, the Armory enables a diverse range of artists to create, students, to explore, and audiences to experience epic, adventurous, relevant work that cannot be done elsewhere in New York.