Territorial and Victorian hotels are legendary in New Mexico (and some haunted!). Automobiles ushered in new family vacation favorites of motels and swimming pools and unforgettable desert sunsets. These memories are made every day in New Mexico lodging classics.
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Mabel Dodge Luhan House
North Region: Taos
Constructed 1918. Mabel Ganson Evans Dodge Sterne Luhan, an author and friend of prominent artists and intellectuals, was born in New York in 1879. She was well-known in the New York art scene, holding salons for artists and writers, before moving to Santa Fe in 1917 to join her third Read more…
Murray Hotel
Southwest Region: Silver City
Constructed 1938. Towering over Silver City’s downtown historic district, the art deco Murray Hotel has found new life after a long closure. The refurbished hotel offers tasteful guest suites within easy walking distance of Silver City Town Hall and the Silver City Museum. 200 W. Broadway Silver City, NM 88061 Read more…
Palace Hotel
Northeast Region: Raton
The Palace Hotel was built across First Street from the Raton Railroad Depot in 1896 in the Romanesque Revival style. The elegant brownstone hotel was the most luxurious hotel in Raton until WWII when the popularity of La Mesa horse racing track eclipsed its location and popularity. The Hotel has Read more…
Palace Hotel
Southwest Region: Silver City
The Palace dates back to 1882. The Meredith and Ailman bank building was built in a superior manner. The iron front, painted dark green presented a remarkably fine appearance and the facade looked very imposing, according to the New Southwest. The Silver City Enterprise announced the opening of the Palace Read more…
Plaza Hotel
North Region: Las Vegas
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…
Sierra Grande Lodge
Southwest Region: Truth or Consequences
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…
Territorial House Inn
North Region: Taos
Constructed 1870. For the price of one cow and five pesos, Santiago Martinez acquired the one-half acre property in 1864 located less than a block from the Historic Taos Plaza. Actual construction on the property dates to the early 1870’s when the New Mexico Vernacular style building known as the Read more…
Trinity Hotel
Southeast Region: Carlsbad
Constructed 1892. The building was built in 1892 as the First National Bank where it housed the town’s first newspaper and later became the historic headquarters of the Carlsbad Irrigation District. In 2007, three partners bought the building with the dream of restoring the decaying property. Many in the community Read more…