Alamogordo Public Library

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Alamogordo Public Library is the public library serving Alamogordo, New Mexico and Otero County, New Mexico. The library has extensive collections of Spanish-language and German-language books and of materials related to the Western writer Eugene Manlove Rhodes.HistoryAlamogordo Public Library first opened on March 1, 1900. Alamogordo was unusual for a Southwestern town at the time in that it was a planned community, the planning being carried out by Charles Bishop Eddy's and John Arthur Eddy's Alamogordo Improvement Company. The Eddys saw a library as being necessary for their community and they gave financial support to the Alamogordo Woman's Club to start the library. Ownership passed to an offshoot, the Alamogordo Library Association, and then to the Civic League. The Civic League retained ownership of the library until 1958 when it was sold for one dollar to the City of Alamogordo.The library had resided in a series of rented rooms until 1962 when a library building was constructed at 920 Oregon Avenue. The building was 10280sqft and cost $175,000. John Reed of Albuquerque was the architect. The library building was doubled in size in 1987 to 20764sqft at a cost of $871,042. The architect was again John Reed.In 2001 a block of land next to the current library was donated to the city to be the site of a new library building, planned at 40000sqft. Bond elections in 2005 and 2009 to fund construction of the new building failed.