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School
Valverde, New Mexico

Description: School
Other Names:
Address: Valverde, Socorro County, New Mexico
Type: educational
Original Client: [local school district]
Historic Inventory:
Date: 1920s
Condition: in ruins

Architect or Firm: Henry C. Trost
Associated Architect or Firm: Trost & Trost
Contractors:
Dimensions and Orientation: unknown
Budget/Cost:

Foundation: concrete
Wall Materials: brick
Roofing Materials: unknown
Other Materials Used: unknown
Remodeling and Additions:

Present Owner: abandoned
Location of Drawings:
Location of Documentary Photographs:

Bibliography: Patricia F. Meleski, Echoes of the Past. New Mexico’s Ghost Towns(Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 1972), pages 81,82, photographs of the entryway.

Remarks: Valverde, about 20 miles south of Socorro, has been deserted for some time. The school is attributed to Trost & Trost on visual evidence. The school, or at least the entry, was probably like Central High School (NMCENTE.001). The entry and part of the walls are seen in the photograph.

Prepared for the El Paso Public Library by Lloyd C. and June F. Engelbrecht under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, 1990