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ABO Elementary School and Fallout Shelter


Name: ABO Elementary School and Fallout Shelter
Category: Cultural
Archive ID#: NM3184
 
Description: Possibly the only school constructed entirely underground, simultaneously serving  as a fallout shelter. Built in 1962, at the height of Cold War fears. Said to have a capacity of 2,000. An above ground school has been built adjacent to it.
Location: Located at 1802 Centre Street, in the town of Artesia, New Mexico.
Address: NM
LCS: Cultural
   
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