Constructed 1995 Ashley Pond was named for Ashley Pond ll. He was the founder of the Los Alamos Ranch School. The pond was used by the school for swimming in the summer and making ice in the winter. On February 8, 1943, the school was vacated to make room for Read more…
Constructed 1937 The October 9, 1937, issue of Boxoffice Magazine said that the Graham Brothers Theatre Supply Company of Denver had shipped various items to the new Serf Theatre in Las Vegas, NM. These included 500 seats, 340 yards of carpeting, two blowers and motors, two curtains with tracks and Read more…
Constructed 1940 This structure was built with WPA funding in 1940. — Source “Public Art and Architecture in New Mexico 1933-1943” by Kathryn A. Flynn 500 W. National St. Las Vegas, NM 87701 575-425-9331 photo by Elmo Baca
Constructed 1890 On July 4, 1879 a rowdy crowd greeted the first Iron Horse locomotive in the New Mexico Territory at the Las Vegas railyard. Within days and weeks, a ramshackle collection of tents and wooden makeshift businesses appeared, attracting fortune seekers from hundreds of miles away. Great mercantile companies Read more…
Constructed 1882 The Plaza Hotel was built in 1882, after a successful business partnership and investment group led by Benigno Romero. The hotel is the finest example of Italian Renaissance Revival architecture in New Mexico and probably the Southwest. The dominant formal facade with its broken central cornice parapet is Read more…
Constructed 1835 After the Las Vegas plaza was founded near the Gallinas River in 1835, settlers quickly took advantage of the growing commerce on the Santa Fe Trail. The plaza of Las Vegas was the first settlement weary caravans encountered after nearly 800 miles on the buffalo plains, and villagers Read more…
Constructed 1880 After the Civil War, the prosperity of the Santa Fe Trail enabled the village of Las Vegas to expand out of the plaza vicinity. New adobe homes were built along the hillside near Our Lady of Sorrows Church and the Presbyterian mission church to the south. Some prosperous Read more…
Constructed 1882 Currently vacant, the former East Las Vegas City Hall has the distinction of being the first municipal building erected in the New Mexico Territory in 1882. The large heavy stone arches on the ground floor are representative of the Romanesque Revival style. The contrasting reddish brown and light Read more…
Constructed 1900 The large residential neighborhood north of Carnegie Park and east of the campus of New Mexico Highlands University contains a dazzling variety of historic residences reflecting nearly every popular historic architectural style during the gilded age of Las Vegas, 1890-1920. Many of the city’s leading citizens built homes Read more…
Constructed 1937 Designed by John Gaw Meem and constructed by the WPA, Rogers Hall was completed in 1937 in the Spanish Colonial Revival style. The walls of the main staircase and the second floor foyer are covered with a mural, “The Dissemination of Education in New Mexico,” completed in 1937 Read more…