It housed the Watervliet Arsenal Museum until it was closed in fall 2013 for security reasons.

Despite the support of the city government and the Watervliet Historical Society for a reopening, the U.S. Army Center of Military History decided it would not be possible to continue allowing public access to the museum within a secure military base.

It is also the only building at the Arsenal to have a strong degree of Italianate styling.

[1]: 6 The building was designated as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1983.

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