Students walked from the Fort Bliss streetcar stop, through the post to its eastern edge, to reach the School of Mines in 1914-1916. The twenty-five-room dormitory, left, and the thirtyjour-room Main Building, right, had been built by the EI Paso Military Institute. When that school closed, they were acquired by the community and donated to the State of Texasfor the new mining school. In the distance are the Franklin Mountains; Sugar Loaf Mountain is nearest the Main Building.
The Main Building at the original campus was a two-story brick structure with finished basement. The assembly hall seated 300. There were also officesfor faculty, classrooms, chemical and geology laboratories, and rooms for drawing," surveyinginstruments, blueprints, and the mineralogical collection. The building had a total of th irty jour rooms.
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