21世纪的警卫室用于各种机关及门禁社区门口，以检查进出入人物，一些大些的机构，警卫室会负责整个地区安全。
美国陆海军警卫室常用的一个口号是“向下一个警卫室重复所有命令”（Repeat all calls more distant from the guardhouse than my own）。[3] 当他们休息时，编号第一位的警卫室第一个休息。[4][5]
August V. Kautz. The Corporal. Customs of Service for Non Commissioned Officers and Soldiers (as practised in the Army of the United States). Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1864 [2013-09-03]. （原始内容存档于2007-01-07）.
- The Guardhouse. Colonial Williamsburg. The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. [2013-09-03]. （原始内容存档于2013-09-13）. - a description of the guardhouse at Colonial Williamsburg
- Lindsay, Charles S. Louisbourg Guardhouses. Canadian Historic Sites: Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History - Contributions from the Fortress of Louisbourg (Ottawa: Parks Canada). 1975, 12 (2) [2013-09-03]. （原始内容存档于2007-03-22）.
- History of the ATHS Guardhouse. Arsenal Technical High School Alumni Association. [2013-09-03]. （原始内容存档于2006-10-19）. - a description of the guardhouse at Arsenal Technical High School, tracing its history from being a combined guardhouse and jail for the U.S. Army barracks through being a school "beanery" to its current function as a school security office
- Kate Holmes. Windsor Barracks the Guardhouse. Australian Society for Historical Archaeology. 1979. - an archaeological report on the guardhouse at the Macquarie Street entrance of the Lancer Barracks in Parramatta, New South Wales
- Guardhouse. Tour the museum. Fort Concho National Historic Landmark. [2013-09-03]. （原始内容存档于2006-10-20）. - an extract from the Fort Concho Medical History Record of May 1871, describing in detail the now nonexistent guardhouse
