Constructed 1939.
The entire four-block junior and senior high school complex was designed and funded by the WPA and built in the Pueblo-Revival style in 1939. It included a cafeteria, two-story high school, agricultural and manual arts building, a gymnasium/auditorium that also housed a home economics classroom, tennis courts, a football stadium with grandstand and field house and junior high school housed in the remodeled three-story building that had served as the town’s high school. The projects provided work at one time or another for more than 6,000 of the county’s 10,000 citizens. WPA funds were also used to put people to work on art projects and other service projects such as making furniture, light fixtures, ceramic ware, as well as a model kitchen for housekeeping instruction in the Home Economics facility.
323 5th St. | Clayton, NM 88415 | (575) 374-2596
Photo by Amy M. Barnhart.
