New Mexico New Deal Sites June 2019 - Photo #2 - Albuquerque: Former High School

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Albuquerque NM 16 June 2019: The old Albuquerque High School Library, 200 Central Avenue NE. Built by the New Deal[1,2], the restored building now houses FatPipe ABQ, a cowork incubator[3].
References
  1. Open House Planned for Five New City School Buildings, Albuquerque Journal, 10 January 1940, p.5: "The City Board of Education designated Feb. 4 as 'open house' at five city school projects recently completed. The projects were built with PWA aid. The projects are the library at the high school, ..."
  2. Kathryn A. Flynn, Public Art and Architecture in New Mexico 1933-1943: A guide to the New Deal Legacy, Sunstone Press (2012), p.32.
  3. Historic Albuquerque High School Lofts, New Mexico Architectural Foundation website, accessed 8 July 2019.