Building Services Division

Central Complex:
Bataan Memorial

Address: 300 Galisteo
Square Footage: 131,535
Year Built: 1900
With additions in the 1950's

Customer Agencies:

• Department of Cultural Affairs
• Department of Finance and Administration
• Office of the State Engineer
• Department of Veterans Services

Building Information:

The building is named in memorial for the many New Mexico veterans serving in the 200th Coast Artillery (Regiment) during World War II, who in April 1942 fought a courageous battle in the Philippines. The story of the Regiment and the other defenders reached its tragic climax with the horrors and atrocities of the 65-mile "Death March" from Mariveles to San Fernando. This infamous march was followed by forty months in Prisoner of War Camps. Of the eighteen hundred men in the Regiment, less than nine hundred made it back home and within one-year a third of them died from various complications.

The building served as the State Capitol Building from 1900 to 1966. In the mid 1950's the building underwent a major renovation, which totally changed the appearance of the building, to its current Territorial style. In the 1970's the building underwent another major renovation, which modified the interior of the building.