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Study for Normal School College
Silver City, New Mexico

 

Description: Study for Normal School
Other Names:
Address: Silver City, Grant County, New Mexico
Type: educational: college
Original Client: Regents of New Mexico State Normal School
Date: 1912
Condition: not built

Architect or Firm: Henry C. Trost
Associated Architect or Firm: Trost & Trost
Contractors:
Dimensions and Orientation: five buildings in symmetrical formal plan
Budget/Cost:

Foundation:
Wall Materials:  not specified
Roofing Materials:
Other Materials Used:
Remodeling and Additions:

Location of Drawings: El Paso Public Library: (N-80) pencil on graph paper with green and brown crayon; (N-81) pencil on tissue, a bird’s eye view of the same plan.

Bibliography: Susan Berry and Sharman Apt Russell, Built to Last; an Architectural History of Silver City, New Mexico (Silver City, New Mexico: Silver City Museum Society, 1986), page 65, discussion of this commission.

Remarks: The dormitory’s, far left and far right, and not the same as the Men’s dormitory project

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