Constructed 1900 An entire new city was platted between the Gallinas River and the Railroad in East Las Vegas after 1879. The two towns East Las Vegas and West Las Vegas would remain separate municipalities until consolidation in 1970. The commercial district of East Las Vegas was centered on the Read more…
Constructed 1870 The neighborhood immediately south of the Las Vegas Plaza was home to some of the first schools in the New Mexico Territory, and is named District of the Schools in Spanish. The Sisters of Loretto established an Academy here that educated generations of youngsters during the Territorial period. Read more…
The Carnegie Park Historic District is listed on the state and national registers and preserves the architectural fabric and eclecticism of the Gilded Age in New Mexico. With the boomtown prosperity of the railroad economy, Las Vegas attracted many prosperous merchants and entrepreneurs, some of whom made their homes near Read more…
Constructed 1890 Located on a downhill slope between the Plaza and the Gallinas River, what is now Bridge Street was originally the National Road or the Santa Fe Trail before the railroad arrived. This area was where the original settlements gardens and acequia madre (mother ditch) were located. As the Read more…