Bertram Goodhue, Walter Douglas and Tyrone, New Mexico

Abstract

Bertram Goodhue is well known for his important public and ecclesiastical buildings, but his project for the company town in Tyrone, New Mexico, abandoned shortly after construction and eventually swallowed up by mine pits, is surely one of the most intriguing. Reactionary politics and public relations led Walter Douglas of Phelps-Dodge to hire Goodhue to design a company town for miners in New Mexico, and politics and declining copper prices led him to abandon it only five years later, despite the merits of the architecture and planning.

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Margaret Crawford

Margaret Crawford coordinates the History and Theory of Architecture program at the Southern California Institute of Architecture. She was educated at the University of California, Berkeley, the Architectural Association, London and the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning at UCIA. She is a member of the JAE editorial board. This article is part of a larger study of American company towns to be published by Verso in the Fall of 1990.