Hobson-Huntsinger University Archives Photograph Collection, 1890-1982
Date
1967-08
Decade
1960s
Subject (LCSH)
New Mexico State University
College campuses
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.'' Edited based on information included on NMSU Our Heritage website.
Extent
8 x 10 in.
Notes
Aerial view of NMSU campus looking towards Organ Mountains, August, 1967.