Carlisle Gymnasium
National Register of Historic Places

Carlisle Gymnasium

Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico
Listed
September 21, 1988
Type
Building
Period
Civil War
Ref No.
88001541

About this property

Carlisle Gymnasium is an indoor arena on the campus of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was the home of the New Mexico Lobos basketball team from its opening in 1928 until the completion of the larger Johnson Gymnasium in 1957, and was also the original venue of the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra. On 4 November 1948, Carlisle Gymnasium was the venue of the world premiere of Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw, a cantata written in tribute to the victims of the Holocoaust. The building currently houses the university's Elizabeth Waters Center for Dance. The building was designed by the firm of Gaastra, Gladding and Johnson in the Pueblo Revival architectural style, which was the de facto official style for all new buildings on campus. In a novel application of the style, the architects used stepped massing, vigas, and other Pueblo details to mask the rectilinear form of the gymnasium. The building was completed at a cost of approximately $85,000 and was named after Hugh Carlisle, a UNM student who died in World War I. Carlisle Gymnasium was added to the New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties and the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

Location

Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico
35.08370, -106.62264

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Sources

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Carlisle Gymnasium was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 21, 1988.

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