Little Red School House (former) Improvements – Red River NM

City:
Red River, NM

Site Type:
Education and Health, Schools, Museums

New Deal Agencies:
Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs

Started:
1939

Completed:
1939

Description

The 1914 historic school building in Red River, New Mexico—now a museum—was the recipient of a distinctive New Deal project: “in 1939, amazingly, WPA funds paid workers to raise the building made with pressed metal siding that gives it a rusticated stone pattern in order to construct concrete living quarters for the teacher as well as a furnace and storage area.”

Source notes

Public Art and Architecture in New Mexico 1933-1943: A Guide to the New Deal Legacy, compiled by Kathryn A. Flynn (pg. 110)

https://www.oldhouses.com/24981

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on February 19, 2018.

Location Info


Jaywalk Trail
Red River, NM

Coordinates: 36.704821, -105.399642

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