The Alamogordo Woman's Club is a

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based in New Mexico. It operates under the auspices of the New Mexico Federation of Women's Clubs (NMFWC) (now known as GFWC New Mexico). The club was created to provide Alamogordo women a way to serve their community. Of note was the Alamogordo Woman's Club's providing books to school libraries.

The building

The Alamogordo Woman's Club was built in 1937 in the Pueblo Revival style by the

Works Progress Administration The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to carry out public works projects, i ...

(WPA) It is a one-story building built by

workers. It was "most likely designed by the project foreman, as were other WPA-funded women's clubs in New Mexico." Its main hall includes three Federal Arts Project paintings by J.R. Willis, a New Mexico artist. With Joseph Roy Willis (1876-1960) was based in

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. It was one of several structures in the Tularosa Basin to be built by the WPA. Others WPA buildings are the Alamogordo Post Office (now Otero County Administration Building), and parts of the New Mexico School for the Blind campus. The Alamogordo Woman's Club building was listed on the

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in 2003.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Alamogordo Woman's Club Women's clubs in the United States Women's organizations based in the United States Clubhouses on the National Register of Historic Places in New Mexico Pueblo Revival architecture in New Mexico National Register of Historic Places in Otero County, New Mexico History of women in New Mexico