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Date added: March 22, 2012; Modified: January 15, 2023
“Thanks to Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs, which promised jobs to needy citizen, many facets of modern-day Roswell were born. Workers from the Works Progress Administration (WPA) built several schools, Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge, a city hall,… read more
Date added: March 17, 2012; Modified: January 29, 2017
“WPA workers constructed this solid, no-nonsense building with Art Deco cement panels on the faade. As one of the many plaques in-side the structure emphatically states, it was Built and paid for in 1938-39. From 1939 to 1962 the Roswell… read more
Date added: March 22, 2012; Modified: August 10, 2016
“The New Mexico State Park system was founded in order to tap funding and labor from the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in the 1930s. Bottomless Lakes State Park was the [third] under this new system [and the first in the… read more
Date added: March 20, 2012; Modified: March 8, 2016
“The City of Roswell acquired the Haynes property in the 1930s and turned it into a municipal park. It was named Cahoon Park in 1936 after pioneer banker E.A. Cahoon. Now, the North Spring River is an intermittent waterway about… read more
Date added: March 17, 2012; Modified: January 16, 2015
“New Mexico Military Institute had many projects that were built partially with WPA funds, among them horse stables for the cavalry.” -Phyllis Eileen Banks
Date added: March 17, 2012; Modified: January 16, 2015
"Roswell was one of four New Mexico cities designated to have an art center. The current Roswell Museum and Art Center, built in 1937, was known as the Federal Art Center. The original building has been incorporated into all the… read more
Date added: March 17, 2012; Modified: June 4, 2012
"The Roswell Museum and Art Center was founded in 1935 through an agreement between the City of Roswell, Works Progress Administration (WPA), Federal Art Project (FAP), Chaves County Archaeological and Historical Society, and the Roswell Friends of Art. The Museum… read more
Date added: March 22, 2012
"The Historical Center for Southeast New Mexico houses four bronze busts done by John Raymond Terken in 1937. The busts are of prominent Roswell citizens John S. Chisum, Joseph C. Lea, John J. Hagerman, and Amelia Bolton Church." -New Mexico… read more