Scholes Hall

Scholes Hall is the historic administration building of the University of New Mexico, located on the main campus in Albuquerque.

It was the first of many buildings designed for the university by Santa Fe architect John Gaw Meem, who helped to cement the Pueblo Revival style as the "official" architecture of the campus.

Scholes Hall was the first of three major UNM buildings built in the 1930s under the direction of President James Fulton Zimmerman (1887–1944) and designed by Santa Fe architect John Gaw Meem.

[1] Scholes Hall is an example of the Pueblo Revival style for which Meem was best known, drawing inspiration from New Mexico's traditional adobe architecture with stepped massing, battered walls and parapets, and projecting vigas.

In particular, Meem's design was modeled after the 1692 San Estevan Del Rey Mission Church at Acoma Pueblo.

San Estevan Del Rey Church (1692) was a source of inspiration for Scholes Hall