Clayton Public Schools Historic District

Clayton Public Schools Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
High-school building
Location	Four blocks in SE Clayton centered on 6th and Cedar Sts., Clayton, New Mexico
Area	7 acres (2.8 ha)
Built	1935
Built by	Works Progress Administration
Architect	Kruger, William C.
Architectural style	Mission/Spanish Revival
MPS	New Deal in New Mexico MPS
NRHP Reference #	96000269[1]
Added to NRHP	March 15, 1996

The Clayton Public Schools Historic District is a 7-acre (2.8 ha) historic district consisting of four blocks in southeast Clayton, New Mexico, centered on 6th and Cedar Sts. Also known as Clayton Public Schools-Campus No. 1, its oldest buildings were built in 1935. It includes work designed by Willard C. Kruger and other New Mexico architects in Mission/Spanish Revival style and built by the Works Progress Administration. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996; the listing included seven contributing buildings, four contributing structure and four other contributing sites.^[1]

Kruger, who served as "State Architect" of New Mexico for one year, also led the state's FERA group of architects. In the project termed "perhaps the most remarkable concentration of WPA-funded school buildings", Kruger's group "designed an entire four-block junior and senior high school complex for the town of Clayton". The project eventually included a high school, a junior high school, agricultural and manual arts buildings, a gymnasium/auditorium, a football stadium, and more facilities. The project was embraced by Raymond Huff, schools superintendent, who also found ways to use Works Project Administration funding for related arts and services projects. For Union County, hard-hit by Dust Bowl storms, the project was important and provided work at one point or another for 6,000 out of the 10,000 population.^[2]

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