New Mexico School of Mines: Gymnasium – Socorro NM

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.

Location Info


New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Gymnasium
Socorro, NM

Coordinates: 34.065993, -106.90561100000002

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One comment on “New Mexico School of Mines: Gymnasium – Socorro NM

  1. Larry Bradley

    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.

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  1. Larry Bradley

    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.

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