Monroe Building – Clayton NM

City:
Clayton, NM

Site Type:
Education and Health, Civic Facilities, Libraries

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

Completed:
1939

Designer:
Willard C. Kruger

Description

“The former Clayton Library, now known as the D.D. Monroe Civic Building, was built in 1939. The building was constructed as a Works Progress Administration project. The building was designed by Willard C. Kruger in a Pueblo style. The building served as the public library until the 1980s when the library moved to a new building and the building then became a meeting facility.”

-Waymarking

Source notes

"Clayton Public Library - Clayton, New Mexico," Waymarking.com
<https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WME7DX_Clayton_Public_Library_Clayton_New_Mexico>

National Register of Historic Places
<https://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/nm/Union/state.html>

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on February 3, 2018.

Location Info


116 Walnut Street
Clayton, NM 88415

Coordinates: 36.451038, -103.183008

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