Lea Hall

Lea Hall is named for Captain Joseph Calloway Lea (1841-1904), who proposed the foundation of the Institute and gave the first buildings and the original site for its establishment as Goss Military Institute in 1891, on the west side of present Main Street between Fourth and Fifth Streets. In 1893, the school was given territorial status and the designation New Mexico Military Institute. Roswell then had a population of 343 and was 160 miles by stage from the nearest railroad at Pecos, Texas. Three buildings on the present campus, to which the school was moved in 1897, have borne Captain Lea's name. The first was completed in 1898 near the southeast corner of the campus and was destroyed by fire Aug. 31, 1909. The second, near the northeast corner of the campus, was completed in 1910. The third building was completed in 1941.

Roswell, New Mexico · United States