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2002 Most Endangered
- Most Endangered Places in New Mexico 2002
- White Sands National Monument Visitor Center, Otero
- Carrizozo Woman's Club, Lincoln
- D.D. Monroe Civic Building, Union
- New Mexico Public Welfare Building (The Villagra Building), Santa Fe
- The Whittlesey House, Bernalillo
- Edgewood Schoolhouse, Santa Fe
- Glorieta Battlefield, Santa Fe
- Castaneda Hotel, San Miguel
- The Hondo Valley, Lincoln
- Las Cruces Downtown Main Street, Dona Ana
Edgewood Schoolhouse, Santa Fe
Significance: Built in the late 1930s as a Depression-era WPA project, the Edgewood Schoolhouse is one of the best preserved of New Mexico?s few remaining WPA schoolhouses. During the past 64 years, this building has been the hub of communities as a place of learning, house of worship, local gathering spot and home for Edgewood?s? first town offices. The schoolhouse was built as a community effort, with land donated by a local family, hand-made adobe bricks and vigas brought down from Sandia Crest. Through the years, even as it housed restaurants, it remained a vital community-gathering place.
Threat: The current owner, Smith?s Food & Drug of Salt Lake City, Utah, purchased the site that includes Edgewood Schoolhouse and has built a supermarket and pharmacy east of the schoolhouse, while another portion of the property now has a McDonald?s Restaurant. The Edgewood Schoolhouse stands in danger of being razed for future development by Smith?s.
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