Guardhouse

Gunma University Kiryu Campus (Kiryu City, Gunma, Japan). Built in 1915.

The Hyakunin Bansho (former guard house) inside the former Imperial Palace, Edo Castle) was staffed by 100 samurai.

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]

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

[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] rawn from: Ketcham, Sally. "Guardhouse Overview". Retrieved 2009-05-26.

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