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13-618: First Battalion Virginia Volunteers Armory , is a historic armory building located in Richmond, Virginia . It was built in 1895, and is a two-story. Late Victorian style brick structure. It also is known as the Leigh Street Armory , the Monroe School , and the Monroe Center . It features four brick towers, two circular turrets, a rectangular tower over the center front entrance, and

26-575: A property in Richmond, Virginia on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Armory (military) A sub-armory is a place of temporary storage or carrying of weapons and ammunition, such as any temporary post or patrol vehicle that is only operational in certain times of the day. The term in English entered the language in the 16th century as

39-715: A first class in literae humaniores . He was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1892. Chisholm worked for The St James's Gazette as assistant editor from 1892 and was appointed editor in 1897. During these years, he also contributed numerous articles on political, financial and literary subjects to the weekly journals and monthly reviews, becoming well known as a literary critic and conservative publicist. He moved in 1899 to The Standard as chief leader-writer and moved in 1900 to The Times , to act as co-editor with Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace and President Arthur Twining Hadley of Yale University on preparation of

52-495: A loanword from French : arsenal , itself deriving from the term Italian : arsenale , which in turn is thought to be a corruption of Arabic : دار الصناعة , dār aṣ-ṣināʿa , meaning "manufacturing shop". A lower-class arsenal, which can furnish the materiel and equipment of a small army, may contain a laboratory, gun and carriage factories, small-arms ammunition, small-arms, harness, saddlery tent and powder factories; in addition, it must possess great storehouses. In

65-598: A school for African-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. It is currently home to the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia , which finished construction in May 2016. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. This article about

78-411: A second-class arsenal, the factories would be replaced by workshops. The situation of an arsenal should be governed by strategic considerations. If of the first class, it should be situated at the base of operations and supply, secure from attack, not too near a frontier, and placed so as to draw in readily the resources of the country. The importance of a large arsenal is such that its defences would be on

91-404: A square tower, with crenellation along the roof parapet. The interior was rebuilt after a fire in 1985, and a 1940s gymnasium removed in 1998. 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

104-533: The U.S.'s Watertown Arsenal (a principal center for artillery design and manufacture) and Frankford Arsenal (a principal center for small arms ammunition design and manufacture). [REDACTED]   This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain :  Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911). " Arsenal ". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. Hugh Chisholm Hugh Chisholm ( / ˈ tʃ ɪ z ə m / ; 22 February 1866 – 29 September 1924)

117-714: The eleven volumes forming the 10th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica . In 1903, he became editor-in-chief for the 11th edition , which was completed under his direction in 1910, and published as a whole by the Cambridge University Press , in 29 volumes, in 1911. He subsequently planned and edited the Britannica Year-Book (1913). Chisholm had been suggested as replacement as editor of The Times as an alternative to Geoffrey Dawson . Lord Northcliffe , owner of The Times from 1909, promised him

130-410: The manufacturing branches are required skill, and efficient and economical work, both executive and administrative; in the storekeeping part, good arrangement, great care, thorough knowledge of all warlike stores, both in their active and passive state, and scrupulous exactness in the custody, issue and receipt of stores. Frederick Taylor introduced command and control techniques to arsenals, including

143-473: The post in 1911, but did not act on the promise, and Dawson continued to 1919. In 1913, following his return from America overseeing the printing of The Britannica Year-Book , Chisholm was appointed day editor of The Times . His role included that of leader writer ; but eventually he fell out with Northcliffe. In August 1913, he was appointed a director of the company. He was financial editor throughout World War I , resigning in 1920 when he embarked on

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156-414: The scale of those of a large fortress . In the early 21st century, the term " floating armoury " described a ship storing weapons to be supplied to merchant vessels in international waters subject to piracy , so that the weapons do not enter territorial waters where they would be illegal. The branches in a great arsenal are usually subdivided into storekeeping , construction and administration : In

169-664: Was a British journalist. He was the editor of the 10th, 11th and 12th editions of the Encyclopædia Britannica . He was born in London , England, a son of Henry Williams Chisholm (1809–1901), Warden of the Standards at the Board of Trade , and his wife Anna Louisa Bell; the mathematician Grace Chisholm was his sister. He was educated at Felsted School and matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford , in 1884, graduating in 1888 with

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