Constructed 1909. The construction of the Belen cut-off railroad line through central New Mexico in 1907 was a great boon for the village of Belen. Within two years, the Santa Fe Railroad constructed a handsome depot and Harvey Hotel in the familiar Mission Revival style. Today, the Harvey House has Read more…
Constructed 1941. The El Rey Theater is a historic, live music venue. The El Rey opened on June 27, 1941. By the mid-1970s it was known as the Reel Theater. The popular venue was owned originally by Luigi Puccini a cousin of the famed Italian composer Giacomo Puccini. The theater Read more…
Constructed 1946. The former A.T. & S.F. Freight office in downtown Albuquerque was built in 1946 in an effort to modernize the railroad’s freight operations in the Duke City. The building is an excellent example of a streamlined version of the railroad’s trademark Mission Revival style of architecture. The building Read more…
Constructed 1906. The Tucumcari Railroad Depot was built by the Union Pacific line as more railroad lines penetrated into the NM Territory. The Tucumcari depot is among the most impressive surviving depot buildings in the state, lovingly restored by the community with the assistance of state and federal grants in Read more…
Constructed 1913. By 1898, the railroad line between Roswell and Amarillo was completed, and a tent city trade center sprang up along the tracks at the present site of Portales. After the Belen cut-off line through Clovis became the popular east-west route through New Mexico, the Santa Fe railroad built Read more…
Constructed 1921. The Lyceum Theater opened in 1921 with 899 seats, built for E.F. Hardwick with stage capacity for vaudeville shows and movies. It was designed in the Mission Revival style by the Boller Brothers, a popular architectural firm specializing in movie theaters. The Lyceum showed its first talking picture Read more…
Constructed 1907. At the turn of the Twentieth century, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad was looking for a new route over the mountains of New Mexico. It built a bypass from Belen to Texico, and used existing lines to join its mainline in Kansas. The Clovis depot was Read more…
Constructed 1929. Built in 1929, Sierra Grande Lodge is part of the Hot Springs Bathhouse and Commercial Historic District in Truth or Consequences, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The transformations it has undergone in the many years since its origination as the first bathhouse have Read more…
Constructed 1941. The El Cortez Theater was built in 1941 and had a seating capacity of 580. It was closed for many, many years, but revitalized and re-opened in 1995 to show first-run movies once again.This little town of Truth or Consequences, NM (pop. 7,500+), formally Hot Springs, NM, and Read more…
Constructed 1926. The Rio Grande Theatre came to life on July 29, 1926 with the opening of the silent film, Mare Nostrum, (A powerful story of the sea), with pipe organ accompaniment. The original builders of the Rio Grande Theatre were C. T. Seale and B. G. Dyne who acquired Read more…