The rehabilitation of the National Guard Armory, A National Register property, was designed to serve as an archive and library facility for the County’s historical documents. The conversion consisted of the construction of a balcony inside the Drill Hall and a wheelchair lift to its displays dedicated to veterans. The drill hall floor now contains the library for the Indiana County Genealogical Society. There is ample room for research tables, special collections and interpretive displays. The basement has space for workshops, conservation efforts and storage of the library’s large inventory
of memorabilia and historical artifacts. The relocation of the documents to this facility completed the goals of the Historical Society
to move its collections from the adjacent
Silas M. Clark House, which was experiencing structural failure from the weight of the second floor storage. The Clark House and Armory form a campus of National Register Properties.