North Region

The Las Vegas Railroad Depot replaced an earlier wooden depot constructed after the Santa Fe RR arrived in July, 1879, making Las Vegas the first railhead in the NM Territory. The existing depot is one of the earliest buildings built in the trademark California Mission Revival style in NM. The Read more…

Constructed 1890 Lincoln Park was one of two municipal parks platted in the City of East Las Vegas after the railroad steamed into the town on July 4, 1879. Lincoln Park’s close proximity to the railroad district two blocks away made it a popular location for housing for Santa Fe Read more…

Constructed 1980 Many of the buildings in the historic district, such as Fuller Lodge and the Oppenheimer House, originally belonged to the Los Alamos Ranch School. In the 1980s, the homestead-era Romero Cabin was relocated there. It has recently been restored. Fuller Lodge (shown in the photo) was constructed in Read more…

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…

Constructed 1956 In 1956 the rose garden was started at the Fuller Lodge by members of the Los Alamos Garden Club. At that time there was no cemetery, so rose bushes were planted in memory of those who died in Los Alamos. The deceased were buried elsewhere. The garden club Read more…

Constructed 1900 Mora was founded in 1835 after a land grant was awarded to settlers by the Mexican government. The land grant was called “Santa Gertrudis de Mora” thereby establishing St. Gertrude as the patron saint of the fledgling village. Mora residents rebelled against the new American regime in 1847 Read more…

The plaza of Mora is an undeveloped space just north of St. Gertrude’s parish in the heart of the village. The plaza is used by the parish as a parking lot, but plans are underway to redevelop the modest square for community uses. Background history of Mora: Hispanic settlers had Read more…

Constructed 1940. Nicolai Fechin was a supremely talented Russian artist who emigrated to the United States in the early Twentieth Century and ultimately settled in Taos about 1920. Fechin was trained in Russian folk arts and used his skills to create a unique fusion with the New Mexico folk arts 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…

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…