Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) Photograph Collection at the Colorado State Archives

Municipal Building at La Junta, Otero County, 46-B3-19

"...The building is to be used as a public meeting place for conventions, plays, concerts, etc., an office for the Chamber of Commerce; a Museum for valuable historical and other relics; an office for the Curator and Secretary.  It is also planned to have the Boy Scouts and other youthful organizations use the Kiva for their councils and other meetings and as the boys admire the beauty, utility and historic meaning of the building, some of them may reverently ponder the fact that through the wisdom and graciousness of ERA their fathers or grandfathers labored in its construction or donated to make it what it is.  Any description is inadequate.  To appreciate this building and all it embodies and signifies, requires that it be seen and leisurely admired."

    Detail of the treatment of the main entrance, 3/1935

    Detail of interior door and sill treatment, 3/22/1935

     Detail of construction process, nd

    Detail of the stacked adobe brick used in the building, 7/1934

    Interior view of the main office in the Museum Building, 3/22/1935

    Detail of door and ceiling treatment in the Boy Scout Kiva, 3/22/1935

    General view of Museum Building in La Junta from street, 3/22/1935

    Detail of exterior of the Museum Building, 3/22/1935

    View of east end of the shop showing work being done on desks for the ERA offices and benches for the Boy Scouts Kiva, 3/20/1935

    View of west end of shop, 3/20/1935

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