Type Office Roof 60 m (200 ft) Height 60 m Floors 13 | Completed 1965 Floor count 13 Opened 1972 | |
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Location 500 Gold Avenue SW
Albuquerque Floor area 300,000 square feet (28,000 m) Similar Pete V Domenici United St, Bank of the West Tower, Simms Building, Gold Building, PNM Building | ||
The Dennis Chavez Federal Building is a highrise federal office building and courthouse in downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was built in 1965 to house the U.S. District Court as well as offices of various federal agencies including the U.S. Postal Service, Veterans Administration, U.S. Public Health Service, and Bureau of Indian Affairs. Originally known simply as the U.S. Courthouse and Federal Office Building, the building was renamed in honor of longtime U.S. Senator Dennis Chavez in 1976.
Map of Dennis Chavez Federal Building, Albuquerque, NM 87102, USA
The Dennis Chavez Building was designed by the Albuquerque firm of Flatow, Moore, Bryan & Fairburn, which had previously been responsible for other local highrises like the Simms Building and Bank of the West Tower. The steel-framed building is faced with polished granite, with New Mexico marble used in the ground floor lobby. It is 197 feet (60 m) in height and has 13 above-ground floors with a basement and underground parking garage. When built, it was the third-tallest building in New Mexico after the Bank of the West Tower and the Gold Building. It is currently the seventh-tallest building in Albuquerque.
The District Court relocated to the newly built Pete V. Domenici United States Courthouse in 1998, but the U.S. Bankruptcy Court is still housed in the Dennis Chavez Building.