Arch Hurley Conservancy District Office Building

Tucumcari, United States

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

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The Arch Hurley Conservancy District Office Building stands on East High Street in Tucumcari, New Mexico, a modest government structure built in 1940 by the United States Bureau of Reclamation. Designed in Spanish-Pueblo Revival architecture, it employs the style in deliberately austere form befitting its pre-World War II federal origins. The main rectangular block measures 100.5 by 37 feet, fronted by a 50.75-by-7-foot portal supported by peeled logs. Construction combines poured concrete foundations with concrete block walls, reinforced with poured concrete at roof-beam connections, while the interior relies on log posts for post-and-beam support in its two primary rooms. The building features a simple parapet and flat roof, maintaining the restrained aesthetic characteristic of Depression-era public works architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.