Editor,
Roosevelt Park in Albuquerque is one of two New Mexico parks on the National Register of Historic Places, contrary to what Mayor Martin Chávez said in an article about Roosevelt Park's renovation.
Five Mile Park is also on the National Register. Sadly, it has made it onto another less-desirable list as one of the most endangered historic sites in New Mexico.
Five Mile Park, which, like Roosevelt Park, was a Depression-era WPA project, contains what was once the largest outdoor swimming pool in New Mexico, complemented by an adobe bathhouse designed by the same architect who did La Fonda Hotel in Santa Fe.
Roosevelt Park, while an excellent example of WPA rock work in an urban park setting, isn't nearly as unique as the threatened Five Mile Park which, alas, is now fenced off, unused and crumbling.
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Sharon Karpinski
UNM graduate student
