First Battalion Virginia Volunteers Armory
First Battalion Virginia Volunteers Armory, also known as the Leigh Street Armory, is a historic armory building located in Richmond. It was built in 1895. It features four brick towers, two circular turrets, a rectangular tower over the center front entrance, and a square tower, with crenellation along the roof parapet. The building originally housed the armory for an African-American militia company until 1899. It then housed a school for African-American children until World War II, when it again was used as a reception center for servicemen of color. It returned as a school for Africa-American children until 1954 and desegregation. For a period it housed The Black History Museum of Richmond. It is the oldest of three identified African-American armories in the country. -from Wikipedia
