Plazas & Courthouse Squares
WPA & New Deal
Civic Buildings
Style: Spanish-Pueblo Revival
McKinley County Courthouse
Northwest Region
Image by Charles Swaney
Photo by New Mexico MainStreet
Constructed 1939
Built in 1939, the McKinley County Courthouse was partially funded by the Public Works Administration and is listed on the state and national historic registers. Designed by the regionally renowned firm Trost & Trost, the four-story Spanish-Pueblo Revival style building is embellished in its interior with wood beams, posts, corbels and Indian motifs. An untitled mural by Lloyd Moylan covers 2,000 square feet of an entire courtroom wall above a six-foot high wooden panel. Painted in 1940, it portrays the history of New Mexico, from prehistoric to modern times. Another mural, "Zuni Indian Pottery Woman" by Anna Keener Wilton, was painted in 1942, and can be found in the District Attorney's office. As of 2012, there were 12 other New Deal paintings hung throughout the courthouse. -- Source "Public Art and Architecture in New Mexico 1933-1943" by Kathryn A. Flynn
201 W. Hill Ave. | Gallup, NM 87301 | 505-722-3868
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