Mountain Country! Beautiful towns are tucked into scenic country in the North Central Region.
You can visit pueblos, white water raft, and wrap up your day with authentic Northern New Mexican cuisine.
- Las Vegas, Los Alamos, Mora, and Taos -
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Old Las Vegas City Hall
North Region: Las Vegas
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…
Old Taos County Courthouse
North Region: Taos
Constructed 1932. The 1932 Spanish-Pueblo Revival style courthouse was built with partial funding from the PWAP and is located on the north side of the Taos plaza. The second floor courtroom was decorated with ten frescoes of subjects related to the use and misuse of the law. The frescos were Read more…
Old Town Residential Historic District
North Region: Las Vegas
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…
Padre Martinez Statue
North Region: Taos
Constructed 2005. As an educator and publisher, Padre Martinez established the first co-educational primary school in Taos in 1826, and in 1833 he established a college preparatory Latin school for prospective native New Mexican seminarians. Realizing the American invasion of New Mexico was immanent; he expanded his curriculum to include Read more…
Plaza Historic District
North Region: Las Vegas
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…
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…
Plaza Theater
North Region: Taos
Constructed 1936. Closed cinema. Southwest Plaza Taos, NM 87571 Photo by Elmo Baca.
Railroad Avenue Historic District
North Region: Las Vegas
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…
San Miguel County Courthouse
North Region: Las Vegas
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
Serf Theater
North Region: Las Vegas
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…