William Conroy Honors Center Explained

Air Science
Coordinates:32.2833°N -106.7553°W
Built:1907, 2001-2002
Architecture:Mission/spanish Revival, California Mission Revival
Added:May 16, 1989
Area:0.2acres
Mpsub:New Mexico Campus Buildings Built 1906--1937 TR
Refnum:88001546

The William Conroy Honors Center, at the New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico is a historic building which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was built in 1907 as a Young Men's Christian Association building. It was designed by architects Trost & Trost. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 with the seemingly-odd name of Air Science; it then served as the Air Science building for NMSU.

It is a three-story California Mission Revival-style masonry and stucco building with a French tile hipped roof. It has an arched entryway. It was built with a brick exterior but that was later plastered over. It was used first as a YMCA, and later taken over by NMSU and used as its Air Science building.[1]

It is located on the northeast corner of N. Horseshoe and Espina St., on the NMSU campus.

The building was retrofitted with an elevator in 2001–02, in an addition creating a new East entrance to the building.[2]

It is listed as Building #35 in NMSU's inventory of buildings, as the William B. Conroy Honors Center, abbreviated WCHC, at 2745 South Espina St. The university also has an Air Test facility and a Wind Tunnel/Research building.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: [{{NRHP url|id=88001546}} National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Air Science ]. National Park Service. Tim Price . Corinne P. Sze . February 28, 1989 . July 31, 2019.
  2. Web site: The Buildings Of New Mexico State University NMSU's Building History Vol. 1 . Patricia Grumet . . See pages 261-270.
  3. Web site: The Buildings Of New Mexico State University NMSU's Building History Vol. 2 . Patricia Grumet . . (Building mentioned in Appendix A.)