- City:
- Santa Fe, NM
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Work Relief Programs, Public Works Administration (PWA), Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
- Started:
- 1935
- Completed:
- 1937
Description
Constructed in 1935, after a design by Santa Fe architect Gordon F. Street, the Old Laundry and Health Center buildings were part of a campus expansion during the New Deal financed by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and the Public Works Administration programs. When completed in 1937, at cost of approximately $400,000, the six new buildings expanding the New Mexico School Deaf campus were considered masterworks of Spanish-Pueblo Revival architecture.
Source notes
Contributor information.
Tom Sharpe, "New Deal's legacy: The face of New Mexico," The Santa Fe New Mexican, April 6, 2008.
<https://www.santafenewmexican.com/PrintStory/New-Deal-s-legacy>
"New Deal Sites in New Mexico," Atlas of Historic New Mexico Maps, New Mexico Humanities Council.
<https://atlas.nmhum.org/atlas.php?gmap=42>
Kermit Project: https://kermitproject.org/newdeal/newmexico2/nmsdhospitalplaque.html
School for the Deaf Receives Approval For $55,000 Laundry, Albuquerque Journal, 12 October 1938, p.8.
50 Communities Benefit from PWA Costing Nearly 18 Million Dollars, Albuquerque Journal, 12 September 1937, p.4.
Site originally submitted by John Murphey on April 20, 2012.
Additional contributions by Frank da Cruz, Kermit Project.
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