Girl’s Dormitory Blind Institute
Alamogordo, New Mexico
Description: Girls’ Dormitory
Other Names: none
Address: New Mexico Blind Institute, Alamogordo, Otero County, New
Mexico
Type: educational: dormitory
Original Client: State of New Mexico
Date: 1913-1914
Condition: demolished
Architect or Firm: Henry C. Trost
Associated Architect or Firm: Trost & Trost
Contractors:
Dimensions and Orientation: 78 feet, 9 inches x 39 feet; faced West
Budget/Cost:
Foundation: stone with concrete footings
Wall Materials: brick
Roofing Materials: tile
Other Materials Used:
Remodeling and Additions:
Location of Drawings: El Paso Public Library: (J-3) 6 sheets, ink on linen, undated plans of first and second floors, (in pencil: Girls)
Location of Documentary Photographs:
Bibliography: Report of the Board of Trustees and Officers of the New Mexico Institute for the Blind For the Biennial Period Ending June 10, 1914. (Alamogordo, New Mexico: Albright & Anderson, printers, 1914), New Building, unnumbered page
Remarks: No commission number; see also NMALAME.002 through NMALAME.010
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.