New Mexico’s New Deal legacy gets second look

Sidewalk built by the WPA in Tucumcari.

(Albuquerque Journal) Amid the misery of the Great Depression, Rupert Lopez gratefully worked for $1 a day for the Civilian Conservation Corps, making adobe-block walls for a new regional National Park Service administration building in Santa Fe.
The 100th anniversary of the National Park Service is igniting new interest in the majestic Spanish pueblo-themed building that Lopez and other “CCC boys” built, along with other remote cabins, furniture and artwork of the 1930s that transformed and popularized national and state parks while putting millions of impoverished Americans back to work. Continued