Plazas & Courthouse Squares
WPA & New Deal
Civic Buildings
Style: Art Deco
Grant County Courthouse
Southwest Region
Image by Eduardo Martinez
Constructed 1930
Built in 1930, the Art Deco style courthouse was the first county courthouse to use New Deal funds for decorative murals. Theodore Van Soelen, N.A. painted two murals titled "Chino Mines" and "The Round Up" under the Public Works of Art Project in 1933 and 1934. Van Soelen researched his subjects intensively and spent six months on the two murals. The Grant County Courthouse is listed on both the state and national historic registers. -- Source "Public Art and Architecture in New Mexico 1933-1943" by Kathryn A. Flynn
201 N. Cooper St. | Silver City, NM 88061 | (575) 574-0100
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