Scholes Hall
UNM campus S of Roma Ave., Albuquerque, NMScholes Hall is one of six buildings on the campus of the University of New Mexico to be included in this nomination. Scholes Hall is significant because it was John Gaw Meem's first major work at UNM. John Gaw Meem deserves more credit than any other individual for the conservation, development, and propagation of the southwestern regional style architecture, which finds its greatest expression in the Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico. Meem is best known for his Pueblo Revival Style architecture; however, he excelled at adapting other architectural styles to have distinctly southwestern flavors. The Rogers Administration Building at New Mexico Highlands University and the Graham gymnasium at Western New Mexico University are excellent examples. Meem is the only architect, other than George Williamson, to design buildings on three different New Mexico campuses. Scholes Hall was modeled after the mission church at Acoma Pueblo. Pueblo-style architecture such as the church at Acoma played a major role in the development of the Spanish Pueblo Revival Style. Scholes Hall was built using WPA funding.
Local significance of the building:Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
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