1004 Belfast, Me. 1951

1004 Belfast, Me. 1951

"1004 Belfast, Me. 1951" Armory, Buildings, Truck, Flag, Driveway In 1940 the city begins planning for an armory on the old RCA property built in the 1920s. After the site closed in 1929, the building was used to barrack the Coast Guard guarding the Belfast rail yards and Searsport docks before WWII. The City of Belfast bought the property from RCA and deeded it over to the State of Maine, which built a National Guard Armory complex on the lower Congress Street site. They retained the brick main office building and attached a 75' X 100' drill shed at a cost of $54,241.00. The Belfast Armory was one of 11 armories built at the time, joining older facilities in Bangor, Bath, Gardiner, Millinocket and Portland. This gave Company K of the 103rd Infantry its own place to train.