- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Gymnasiums, Colleges and Universities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works
- Completed:
- 1935
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works funded the construction of the New Mexico School of Mines Gymnasium in Socorro NM in 1935. Project no. 5127. A plaque mounted near the entrance to the New Mexico Tech Gymnasium reads, “New Mexico School of Mines Gymnasium – Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works – Project No. 5127”
New Mexico School of Mines is now known as New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.
Source notes
Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works plaque on site.
Site originally submitted by Frank da Cruz on June 6, 2019.
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My father William Bradley started NM School of Mines in 1935. We just found a letter which he sent home upon arriving and settling in, age 18.