Today it is the office of the University Heights Association, which owns much of the nearby land, and other community organizations and businesses.

Outside of this enclave, the surrounding neighborhood is residential, giving way to the Washington Park Historic District, the city's largest, three blocks to the northeast.

The building itself is a T-shaped steel frame structure on a parged concrete foundation with walls faced in brick above a granite water table.

A two-story, 13-bay front administration building with a flat roof is joined to a structurally similar barrel vaulted 3+1⁄2-story drill shed.

[2] Two corner bastions set off the middle seven bays of the administration building's north (front) facade from the wings on either side.

The east and west facades have similar fenestration, five bays deep with the middle three in a slightly projecting pavilion.

The company meeting room has a brick fireplace mantel and the interior of the drill shed retains its original exposed roof trusses.

By the early 20th century, improvements in local transportation made it possible to use previously outlying locations, and the current armory was built.

[2] Shortly after moving into the armory, Troop B saw service in World War I as a machine gun company.

[3] B Company of the First Battalion of the 101st Cavalry and various other detachments used the building during the six years before the state Division of Military and Naval Affairs closed and sold it in 1999.

[3] During that time archeological investigations in the vicinity found that it had once been the burial ground for Albany's poor, and many bodies were exhumed.