- City:
- Socorro, NM
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Colleges and Universities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Completed:
- 1939
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
“Weir Hall was another federal project, built under the Works Project Administration (WPA) in 1939. It was named for John Weir, a longtime professor of mining at the School of Mines, who worked here from the mid-1920s until his death in the late 1930’s, just before the building was completed. The 1925 School of Mines yearbook, Porphyry, describes Weir as ‘undoubtedly one of the best instructors in surveying and drafting that the School of Mines has ever had.'”
-New Mexico Tech
New Mexico School of Mines is now known as New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.
Source notes
"Name that Building," New Mexico Tech
"New Deal Sites in New Mexico," Atlas of Historic New Mexico Maps, New Mexico Humanities Council.
WPA plaque.
Site originally submitted by The Living New Deal on April 23, 2016.
Additional contributions by Frank da Cruz.
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Larry Bradley
My father William T Bradley graduated from the NM School of Mines in 1938 as a mining engineer. We visited Socorro once around 1957-1959.