- 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.
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