WPA & New Deal
Style: Spanish-Pueblo Revival
Otero County Administration Building
South Region
photo by Eduardo Martinez
Constructed 1938
The building, which was built in 1938 as a post office in the New Deal project, PWA (Public Works Administration), is the home of a beautiful Peter Hurd mural which is on the front exterior of the building.
In Alamogordo, under the Art-in-Architecture program titled, "Sun and Rain", Peter Hurd painted one of New Mexico's most beautiful frescos in 1942, around the entrance to the building. The central part of the fresco is flanked by two smaller frescos, "Sorghum" and "Yucca".
The structure is now a county building in Alamogordo.
-Treasures on New Mexico Trails, Kathryn Flynn
1101 New York Avenue | Alamogordo, NM 88310
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