- City:
- Albuquerque, NM
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
Description
“For years, a territorial-style two-story building has stood as an unofficial sentry into the Barelas neighborhood at Fourth Street coming from Downtown. Until 1975, it was an elementary school that had been built by the Public Works Administration as part of the New Deal that eventually was too small for the hordes of neighborhood children. And until recently, it housed Albuquerque Public Schools administrators and records, as transients patrolled the nearby streets searching for local soup kitchens. Come August, the freshly scrubbed and modernized Coronado Elementary at 601 Fourth SW will again house students to accommodate an increased demand for Downtown classrooms…
Built in 1937 at a cost of $125,410, Coronado replaced an earlier “Third Ward School” thought to be among the earliest, if not the first, in the city.” (https://www.abqjournal.com)
-Treasures on New Mexico Trails
Source notes
https://www.abqjournal.com/education/09852555936education06-09-09.htm Flynn, Kathryn A., editor. Treasures on New Mexico Trails: discovery of New Deal art and architecture. New Mexico State Historic Preservation Division, 1995. Pg. 34. "New Deal Sites in New Mexico," Atlas of Historic New Mexico Maps, New Mexico Humanities Council.Contribute to this Site
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mo palmer
Alex Tarr
Lucille chavez
coronado replaced the THIRD ward school
Mo, thank you for the correction, I’ve updated the entry.
the coronado school replaced the old third ward school not the fourth ward. fourth ward was where lew wallace elementary is now
Hello I was in 1st & 2nd grade there at this elementary schoolI loved it there my dad Frank Chavez had a shoe shop on 4th Street. back in the day. I remember.