In 1938, a joint committee of county board members, city officials, and National Guard officers looked over architects’ plans of a proposed new Armory building in Manitowoc. The Exhibition Hall and Armory building, located at 930 North 18th Street in Manitowoc on the Manitowoc County Fair Grounds, would provide for general county use and exhibit space for the fair, as well as offices, storage and drill space for the local National Guard, Company E 127th Infantry. The new structure would replace 3 wooden fair exhibition buildings and be of “new modern constructing.”