- City:
- Taiban, NM
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) conducted school construction / extension / improvement work in Taiban, New Mexico. In 1935 the WPA allocated $2,367 for schoolground improvements at the school in Taiban. [for landscaping:] WPA Official Project No. 65-85-325.
The community no longer maintains a school and the structure is no longer extant.
Beata Olszowka reports: “The site of the former school in Taiban, NM is located behind the Presbyterian church,” which is located at the northern end of Munger Avenue. The former school site is a couple hundred feet NNW of the church. The site “is clearly visible and recognizable using Google Maps satellite imagery. There is no structure left on the site—only piles of concrete blocks, which I believe were originally a part of the building.”
Source notes
National Archives; Record Group 69: Records of the Work Projects Administration; Records of the Project Control Division; microfilm publication T935; roll 41.
Public Art and Architecture in New Mexico 1933-1943: A Guide to the New Deal Legacy, compiled by Kathryn A. Flynn (pg. 160)
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on August 10, 2014.
Additional contributions by Beata Olszowka in June 2018.
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