Santa Cruz High School Gym (former) - Española NM In 1935, the Santa Fe County Board of Education prepared a WPA project proposal for a gym at Santa Cruz High School, a school located in a rural community just east of Española.
Opened in 1925, with 89 students, it was the only high school in the greater Española Valley until 1930.
The gym, to be constructed of traditional adobe, would be thoroughly “modern” and include a “standard size ball court” and meet “all the requirements of the State Board of Education” (WPA OP 65-85-498: 7238).
The Board estimated that it would cost $8,664.40 to construct, with the WPA contributing $5,919.75.
The WPA played...