Guardhouse

Gunma University Kiryu Campus (Kiryu City, Gunma, Japan). Built in 1915.
Guardhouse, Royal Military College of Canada
The Hyakunin Bansho (former guard house) inside the former Imperial Palace, Edo Castle) was staffed by 100 samurai.
Graveyard Guardhouse introduced in the 1800s to prevent body-snatching
Saint Michael's Castle guardhouse in Saint Petersburg, Russia
East German border guardhouse in Berlin, 1984

A guardhouse (also known as a watch house, guard building, guard booth, guard shack, security booth, security building, or sentry building) is a building used to house personnel and security equipment. Guardhouses have historically been dormitories for sentries or guards, and places where sentries not posted to sentry posts wait "on call", but are more recently staffed by a contracted security company. Some guardhouses also function as jails.[1][2]

  1. ^ Kornwolf, James (2002). Architecture and town planning in colonial North America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1312. ISBN 0-8018-5986-7.
  2. ^ info drawn from: Ketcham, Sally. "Guardhouse Overview". Retrieved 2009-05-26.