The Alamogordo Woman's Club is a

women's club The club movement is an American women's social movement that started in the mid-19th century and spread throughout the United States. It established the idea that women had a moral duty and responsibility to transform public policy. While wome ...

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 The Pueblo Revival style or Santa Fe style is a regional architectural style of the Southwestern United States, which draws its inspiration from Santa Fe de Nuevo México's traditional Pueblo architecture, the Spanish missions, and Territor ...

style by the

Works Progress 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 car ...

(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 The Federal Art Project (1935–1943) was a New Deal program to fund the visual arts in the United States. Under national director Holger Cahill, it was one of five Federal Project Number One projects sponsored by the Works Progress Administrati ...

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

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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