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Photo, Print, Drawing Eastern New Mexico State Park, Highway 70, 6 miles north of Portales, Portales, Roosevelt County, NM Eastern New Mexico University Greyhound Stadium Blackwater Draw Museum

[ Data Pages from Survey HALS NM-9  ]

About this Item

Title

  • Eastern New Mexico State Park, Highway 70, 6 miles north of Portales, Portales, Roosevelt County, NM

Other Title

  • Eastern New Mexico University Greyhound Stadium Blackwater Draw Museum

Names

  • Historic American Landscapes Survey, creator
  • Hockenhull, Andrew
  • Macy, G. D.
  • Donahue, Lyle E.
  • Franks, Roy
  • Eastern New Mexico Junior College
  • Stevens, Christopher M., transmitter
  • Hill, Katie, historian

Created / Published

  • Documentation compiled after 2000

Headings

  • -  Civilian Conservation Corps
  • -  Works Progress Administration
  • -  regional parks
  • -  golf courses
  • -  artificial lakes
  • -  recreation
  • -  state parks & reserves
  • -  bathhouses
  • -  water pumps
  • -  New Deal
  • -  public works
  • -  New Mexico--Roosevelt County--Portales

Latitude / Longitude

  • 34.249956,-103.247135

Notes

  • -  Entry 2014 HALS Challenge: Documenting Landscapes of the New Deal
  • -  Significance: The Great Depression arrived early in New Mexico. The values of livestock, farms, and taxable properties plunged in the 1920s, and with it the state’s revenue. With insufficient funds for relief on its own, and half of the state unemployed, New Mexico ranked as the fifth highest state for per capita spending for New Deal projects ((Kammer 1994:8; Welsh 1985:20; Schelberg and Stone 2005). The New Deal shaped New Mexico in multiple ways. Unlike some states, New Mexico did not have the necessary state agencies typically responsible for social services. These were much needed during the Depression. New Deal programs, which created jobs, were administered through federal agencies, sometimes working through state agencies. This encouraged states to form agencies of their own in order to be eligible for projects, funding, and jobs. An example of this is the state parks system. Funding and projects was provided for national parks, but also to state parks. New Mexico, which had no parks of its own before the New Deal, quickly formed a state park division so that it might receive funding for work relief projects. This meant jobs, in addition to public lands for recreation and nature appreciation. Parks are only one example; other state agencies were established at this time, giving New Mexico’s state government many New Deal characteristics. In addition, knowing that many structures would result from public works projects, New Mexico consciously chose the Spanish-Pueblo Revival Style, shaping the architectural image, a substantial tourist attraction, of New Mexico to this day (Schelberg and Stone 2005). The connection to the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) also makes this former park significant. As one of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s foremost New Deal programs, the CCC provided employment and experience for young men with who otherwise would have only been a drain on their families’ income. The majority of the wages made by the enrollees was passed on to their families providing these with the means to survive. In addition, the work performed by the CCC beautified the country’s natural places, defended against natural disasters, reforested overcut woodlands, and helped prepare the country and many of the young men who would fight for WWII. Today many states have their own modern version of the CCC, which continues to fight poverty and difficult economic situations while giving America’s youth appreciation for nature. The structures designed by the National Park Service (NPS) and built by the CCC vary greatly across the country. The idea behind them, however, is the same. It has been around for at least a century, but the term for it, Parkitecture, is relatively new. This is defined as designing and constructing facilities that harmonize with the natural setting. Nature is meant to take precedence, and the (recent) human footprint should integrate into or compliment it (Soulliére et al.1988). This is accomplished in a number of ways, such as using local materials for construction, avoiding straight lines, scaling structures so that they do not overpower, and using building methods and designs similar to those used historically (Davis and Davis 2011). Herbert Maier, Regional Officer of the Southwest District of the NPS, and the ECW program in that district, was an expert on park structures who favored these rustic architectural styles (Davis and Davis 2011). A great deal of thought, planning, and effort went into the New Deal park facilities. Albert H. Good, the Architect of the State Park Division of the NPS considered construction on these natural places a unavoidable trespass, and stated that since it must be done, then it should be attempted with “a certain grace” (Good 1935:3). He eloquently described how park architecture should be carried out with the words: Successfully handled, it is a style which, through the use of native materials in proper scale, and through avoidance of rigid, straight lines, and over-sophistication, gives the feeling of having been executed by pioneer craftsmen with limited hand tools. It thus achieves sympathy with natural surroundings and with the past [Good 1935:3-4]. Though it did not succeed, Eastern New Mexico State Park, is still significant for its connection to New Mexico’s New Deal heritage, the Civilian Conservation Corps, and its parkitecture construction.
  • -  Survey number: HALS NM-9
  • -  Building/structure dates: ca. 1934- ca. 1936 Initial Construction

Medium

  • Data Page(s): 40

Call Number/Physical Location

  • HALS NM-9

Source Collection

  • Historic American Landscapes Survey (Library of Congress)

Repository

Control Number

  • nm0365

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Online Format

  • pdf

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Historic American Landscapes Survey, Creator, Andrew Hockenhull, G. D Macy, Lyle E Donahue, Roy Franks, Eastern New Mexico Junior College, and Katie Hill. Eastern New Mexico State Park, Highway 70, 6 miles north of Portales, Portales, Roosevelt County, NM. New Mexico Portales Roosevelt County, 2000. translateds by Stevens, Christopher M.Mitter Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/nm0365/.

APA citation style:

Historic American Landscapes Survey, C., Hockenhull, A., Macy, G. D., Donahue, L. E., Franks, R., Eastern New Mexico Junior College & Hill, K. (2000) Eastern New Mexico State Park, Highway 70, 6 miles north of Portales, Portales, Roosevelt County, NM. New Mexico Portales Roosevelt County, 2000. Stevens, C. M. M., trans Documentation Compiled After. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/nm0365/.

MLA citation style:

Historic American Landscapes Survey, Creator, et al. Eastern New Mexico State Park, Highway 70, 6 miles north of Portales, Portales, Roosevelt County, NM. trans by Stevens, Christopher M.Mitter Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/nm0365/>.