New Mexico New Deal Sites November 2018 - Photo #248 - Socorro Grade School

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Photo: 11 November 2018
Socorro Grade School, 239 Garfield Avenue, Socorro, New Mexico. Built by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1936[1,2]. Later known as the Edward E. Torres School. Now closed and sealed.
References
  1. Kathryn A. Flynn, Public Art and Architecture in New Mexico 1933-1943: A guide to the New Deal Legacy, Sunstone Press (2012), section "New Mexico Schools Built by Public Works or Works Progress Administration Funding", p.169" "Socorro Grade School no longer used".
  2. Because it says so over the entrance.