St. Luke’s Parochial School
Anthony, New Mexico
Description: St. Luke’s Parochial School
Other Names: Central School
Address: Anthony, Do Ana County, New Mexico
Type: educational
Original Client: Gadsden Independent School District
Date: 1913
Condition: extant; in use as a school
Architect or Firm: Henry C. Trost
Associated Architect: Trost & Trost
Dimensions and Orientation: V-shaped, each wing 58 feet long
Budget/Cost:
Foundation: concrete
Wall Materials: adobe, plastered
Roofing Materials: shingle
Other Materials: wood eaves
Remodeling and Additions: concrete ramp added to North side
Location of Drawings: none known to exist
Location of Documentary Photographs:
Bibliography: Edith Donaldson, The History of Public Education Within the
Gadsden Independent School District(privately printed, 1957), pages
111-115, illustrated page 112
Remarks: Similar in design to the school in
Bent, New Mexico (NMBENTE.001),
Alta Vista School (NMANTHE.003)
Chamberino School (NMCHAME.001).
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