213 Truman St., NE., Albuquerque, New Mexico. County/parish: Bernalillo.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 10, 1989. NRIS 89001589.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
The Solar Building, located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was the world's first commercial building to be heated primarily by solar energy. It was built in 1956 to house the engineering firm of Bridgers & Paxton, who were responsible for the heating system design. The novel building received widespread attention, with articles in national publications like Life and Popular Mechanics, and was the subject of a National Science Foundation-funded research project in the 1970s. It was added to the New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties in 1985 and the National Register of Historic Places in 1989, only 33 years after it was built.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/77847164