Aerial view of NMSU campus looking towards Organ Mountains, August, 1967.
Historical context
''In 1907, the headline in the Las Cruces newspaper announced “New College to be Work of Art.” Pioneer southwestern architect Henry C. Trost had been commissioned to design a plan for the fledgling New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, founded only 19 years earlier. The plan for what was to become New Mexico State University included a horseshoe drive and 13 buildings that were to form the school’s centerpiece.(...) The campus would have an east-west orientation and be open-ended in the west at its entrance. The buildings were to be executed in what Trost called Spanish Renaissance architectural style, with hipped tile roofs and domed towers. Arches would connect the buildings to form a complex resembling some of the historic California missions.'' Cited from NMSU Our Heritage website, https://nmsu.edu/about_nmsu/Our-Heritage.html.
Subject (LCSH)
New Mexico State University
College campuses
Digital publisher
New Mexico State University Library
Access rights
Public record. No restrictions on use. See New Mexico Inspection of Public Records Act, Chapter 14, Article 2, 8th Edition, 2015
Source
NMSU Library Archives and Special Collections Department