The Administration Building, on the south side of University Pl. and the campus green of Eastern New Mexico University, in Portales in

Roosevelt County, New Mexico Roosevelt County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2020 census, the population was 19,191. Its county seat is Portales. The county was created in 1903 from Chaves and Guadalupe counties and named for the then-cur ...

, was built in 1931. It was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...

in 1988. It is registered with the

New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties The New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties is a register of historic and prehistoric properties located in the state of New Mexico. It is maintained by the New Mexico Historic Preservation Division of the New Mexico Department of Cultural ...

(SRCP). It is a three-story

Collegiate Gothic Collegiate Gothic is an architectural style subgenre of Gothic Revival architecture, popular in the late-19th and early-20th centuries for college and high school buildings in the United States and Canada, and to a certain extent Europ ...

building with a steep slate roof and pointed pedimented gable ends. It was designed by Lubbock, Texas architect Orville R. Walker. It was built in 1931 and extended in 1936. It was built to serve as an administration building and still did at time of NRHP nomination. It was the first building built on the new Eastern New Mexico University campus; in fact it was completed two years before classes began on the campus. The 1936 work was completed using

Works Project Administration The Works Progress Administration (WPA; from 1935 to 1939, then known as the Work Projects Administration from 1939 to 1943) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to c ...

funds. Subsequent buildings on the campus were also done in Collegiate Gothic style. With .

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* National Register of Historic Places in New Mexico Gothic Revival architecture in New Mexico Collegiate Gothic architecture in the United States University and college buildings completed in 1931 Roosevelt County, New Mexico New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties Eastern New Mexico University University and college administration buildings in the United States 1931 establishments in New Mexico {{NewMexico-NRHP-stub