The Historic Mesquite District Ceramic Tile Mural

 

 

There are eight panels, each one measuring 8 feet wide by 6 feet high. They are a pictorial narrative history  of the Mesquite district, which was the original town site of Las Cruces, New Mexico.

 

Below the story begins with the indigenous Native Americans, and ends with the "Urban Renewal" destruction of hundreds of historic homes and businesses in the late 60's.

 

Click here to read Project Statment

 

            

 

 

        The Piro-Manso Tiwa, Apache and Comanche               Lt. Sackett and Don Pablo Melendres

 

 

               

              

  

 

        The Loretto Academy, girls Catholic school                Ethnic and cultural diversity in the Mesquite

 

               

 

    The 50's and when Las Cruces still had a center             Urban renewal with blocks flattened and empty

 

 

The project statement

 

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