National Register of Historic Places
Zimmerman Library
Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico
The record
- Listed
- August 22, 2016
- Type
- Building
- Address
- 1900 Roma Ave., NE., Albuquerque
- County
- Bernalillo
- State
- New Mexico
- Contributing resources
- 1 building, 2 sites, 2 objects
- Coordinates
- 35.08498, -106.62084
- Reference number
- 16000549
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The story
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Zimmerman Library is a university library building at 1900 Roma Ave. NE in Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, built in 1936-1938 in the Spanish-Pueblo Revival, or Santa Fe, style by architect John Gaw Meem.
Why it's listed
It was listed under criteria A and C, with state-level significance in architecture, art, landscape architecture, education and politics and government, part of the multiple property submission for buildings designed by Meem, with a period of significance from 1938 to 1966, when it served as the university's principal library.
Physical character
The library's adobe walls are stuccoed, with a flat roof, carved vigas and corbels, and wooden casement windows. A nine-story fireproof stacks tower rises behind the Great Hall, where Kenneth Miller Adams painted murals in 1937-1938. Additions in 1966 and 1973, by Ferguson, Stevens, Mallory and Pearl and by Dean, Hunt, Krueger and Associates, added an entrance portico and extended the building east.
Historical context
The university's Board of Regents adopted the Pueblo Revival style for its campus in 1927, and by 1933 President James Zimmerman had named Meem university architect, designing about twenty-five campus buildings through 1959. The library was renamed Zimmerman Library in 1961 for him, and its Great Hall murals were vandalized in the 1970s.