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Solar buildings -- Albuquerque (N.M.) -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Bridgers & Paxton Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0010
Abstract The collection holds two boxes of business files and one framed newspaper article regarding the Bridgers & Paxton engineering firm. The firm, still in existence in 2019, created and utilized the Solar Building at 213 Truman Street SE in Albuquerque, NM. The Solar Building finished construction in August of 1956, becoming the first active solar heated commercial building in the world. Bridgers & Paxton devised the mechanical system that made their new headquarters. The office was...
Dates: 1964 - 2001