New Mexico New Deal Sites November 2018 - Photo #47 - Sierra County Courthouse in Truth or Consequences

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Photo: 8 November 2018.
The Territorial Revival[1] style Sierra County Courthouse building at 311 North Date Street between West 4th Street and West Third Avenue, Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, built by the WPA in 1939.[2]
References
  1. Roadside Architecture And Objects in New Mexico, New Mexico Department of Transportation Cultural Resource Technical Series 2010-1, p.53. A very thorough survey of the Architecture and other roadside sites of New Mexico (158 pages).
  2. About the Court, New Mexico Courts, Seventh District website, accessed 26 November 2018.
  3. The Hot Springs Bathhouse and Commercial Historic District in Truth or Consequences, National Register of Historic Places, "When Hot Springs wrested the county seat from Hillsboro in 1938, the new Sierra Courthouse was ... funded as a WPA project."