New Mexico School for the Deaf, Health Center
North and East elevation, facing South. Photo: John W. Murphey © Creative Commons 2014
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.
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Building Number 2, the School/Administration Building, built in 1937 with some combination of WPA and PWA funds. Now called Dillon Hall. Architect: Gordon F. Street.
Building Number 2, the School/Administration Building, built in 1937 with some combination of WPA and PWA funds. Now called Dillon Hall. Architect: Gordon F. Street.
Building Number 2, the School/Administration Building, built in 1937 with some combination of WPA and PWA funds. Now called Dillon Hall. Architect: Gordon F. Street.
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Dining Hall, PWA, 1935-1937; kitchen and dining area on first floor, auditorium and/or recreation upstairs. Architect: Gordon F. Street. Now called Belle and Cora Larson Hall.
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Dining Hall, PWA, 1935-1937; kitchen and dining area on first floor, auditorium and/or recreation upstairs. Architect: Gordon F. Street. Now called Belle and Cora Larson Hall.
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Santa Fe: New Mexico School for the Deaf - entrance on Cerrillos Road.
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Buildings at New Mexico School for the Deaf. Right to left: Cartwright Hall (not New Deal); Delgado Hall (not New Deal); New Deal Dining Hall / Auditorium building; (extreme left) Dillon Hall (New Deal).
Santa Fe: New Mexico School for the Deaf
Buildings at New Mexico School for the Deaf. Right to left: Cartwright Hall (not New Deal); Delgado Hall (not New Deal); New Deal Dining Hall / Auditorium building; (extreme left) Dillon Hall (New Deal).
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Superindent’s Residence, built somewhere between 1900 and 1904 and therefore not a New Deal structure, but it was renovated under a PWA project in 1937 and it houses a collection of New Deal art.
Santa Fe: New Mexico School for the Deaf
Superindent's Residence, built somewhere between 1900 and 1904 and therefore not a New Deal structure, but it was renovated under a PWA project in 1937 and it houses a collection of New Deal art.
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The newly-built Classroom/Administration Building in 1937, now Dillon Hall.
Santa Fe: New Mexico School for the Deaf
The newly-built Classroom/Administration Building in 1937, now Dillon Hall.
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Santa Fe: New Mexico School for the Deaf,
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The newly-constructed Dining Hall in the 1930s.
Santa Fe: New Mexico School for the Deaf, dining
The newly-constructed Dining Hall in the 1930s.
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Hay barn under construction. If this is the same building as the Maintenance Barn. This was one of the early designs of architect John Gaw Meem.
Santa Fe: New Mexico School for the Deaf, barn
Hay barn under construction. If this is the same building as the Maintenance Barn. This was one of the early designs of architect John Gaw Meem.
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Also known as the Health Center and the Infirmary. The building has since been demolished but part of its historic façade was preserved.
Santa Fe: New Mexico School for the Deaf, hosp
Also known as the Health Center and the Infirmary. The building has since been demolished but part of its historic façade was preserved.
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The newly-built Hospital in 1937. Now demolished but the main entrance has been left standing as a historical marker.
Santa Fe: New Mexico School for the Deaf, hospital 1937
The newly-built Hospital in 1937. Now demolished but the main entrance has been left standing as a historical marker.
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Santa Fe: New Mexico School for the Deaf, hospital in 2006
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Hospital building construction plaque, 1937.
Santa Fe: New Mexico School for the Deaf, hospital plaque
Hospital building construction plaque, 1937.
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Side view of the Hospital in 2014.
Santa Fe: New Mexico School for the Deaf, hospital, 2014
Side view of the Hospital in 2014.
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The Laundry Building, built in 1938-39 with PWA funds. Architect: Gordon F. Street. Photographed in 2006.
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The Laundry Building, built in 1938-39 with PWA funds. Architect: Gordon F. Street. Photographed in 2006.
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Laundry Building plaque.
Santa Fe: New Mexico School for the Deaf, laundry plaque
Laundry Building plaque.
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Photo from the Albuquerque Journal, 12 Sep 1937
Santa Fe: New Mexico School for the Deaf, 1937
Photo from the Albuquerque Journal, 12 Sep 1937
Source notes
Contributor information.
Tom Sharpe, "New Deal's legacy: The face of New Mexico," The Santa Fe New Mexican, April 6, 2008.
<http://www.santafenewmexican.com/PrintStory/New-Deal-s-legacy>"New Deal Sites in New Mexico," Atlas of Historic New Mexico Maps, New Mexico Humanities Council.
<http://atlas.nmhum.org/atlas.php?gmap=42>Kermit Project: http://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.
Project originally submitted by John Murphey on April 20, 2012.
Additional contributions by Frank da Cruz, Kermit Project.
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