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School House
Luna, New Mexico

 

Description: Schoolhouse
Other Names:
Address: Luna, Catron County, New Mexico
Type: educational
Original Client: Socorro Board of Education
Historic Inventory:
Date: by 1922
Condition:

Architect or Firm: Henry C. Trost
Associated Architect or Firm: Trost & Trost
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Remarks: H. L. Beagle, member of the Socorro Board of Education, stated in a general letter of recommendation of April 7, 1922, that Trost & Trost has built a school house in Luna Valley. (Copy of letter, Ponsford Collection, El Paso Public Library)

Catron County was created in 1921; before that it was part of Socorro County.

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