The Dennis Chavez Federal Building is a high-rise federal office building and courthouse located at 500 Gold Avenue SW in

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. It was completed in 1965 and was built with the purpose of housing the U.S. District Court as well as offices of various federal agencies including the

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, and

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. Originally known simply as the U.S. Courthouse and Federal Office Building, the building was renamed in honor of longtime U.S. Senator

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in 1976. The Dennis Chavez Building was designed by the Albuquerque firm of Flatow, Moore, Bryan, and Fairburn, which had previously been responsible for other local highrises like the Simms Building and Bank of the West Tower. The steel-framed building is faced with polished granite, with New Mexico marble used in the ground floor lobby. It is in height and has 13 above-ground floors with a basement and underground parking garage. Hegeman-Harris Company of New York City was the general contractor. When built, it was the third-tallest building in New Mexico after the Bank of the West Tower and the

New Mexico Bank & Trust Building The New Mexico Bank & Trust Building is a 14-story, office skyscraper on Gold Avenue in downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is the sixth-tallest building in the city. When completed in 1961, it surpassed the Simms Building to become the tallest ...

. It is currently the seventh-tallest building in Albuquerque. The District Court relocated to the newly built

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in 1998, but the U.S. Bankruptcy Court is still housed in the Dennis Chavez Building.

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