The former
New Mexico State Police Administration Building built by
the Works Progress Administration, 1935. It is one of several police
buildings constructed on the same campus by the WPA between 1935 and 1940.
The campus was turned over to the New Mexico Department of Transportation in
1971 and the buildings now house offices in the DOT General Complex at
1120 Cerrillos Road.
References
- State
Police Open New Headquarters Today, Clovis News-Journal,
18 December 1935, page 1: "Tonight the Governor and Mrs. Tingley will be
hosts at an elk dinner to the policement, their wives and guests, at the
executive mansion. At 8 o'clock the formal dedication of the building will
be held. Speakers will include the governor, Mayor Charles B. Barker of
Santa Fe, WPA Director Lea Rowland and Assistant Attorney General
J.R. Modrall. After the ceremony, there will be dancing in the new
building. The building was constructed as a relief project and WPA
project..."
- New
Mexico State Police District 1 Campus (Former) –
Santa Fe NM, Living New Deal website, accessed 12 July 2019:
"This expansion [of the police force in 1933] led to the first WPA project
creating the administrative building in 1935 (Project No. 65-85-823). In its
design, with its two rounded masses flanking a recessed portal, it is
similar to another New Deal project in Santa Fe, the New Mexico State Park
Administrative Building..."