The arrival of the Railroad in 1879 had a profound effect on Las Vegas. For 30 years the main rail line through the Southwest made Las Vegas the region's headquarters for the A.T. & S.F.R.R. The structure is one of the earliest examples of . . . — — Map (db m236605) HM
Built by M.J. Cavanaugh
for Aniceto Baca.
First housed the O.I. Houghton
Hardware and by 1890 the
Appel Brothers Mercantile.
Saibe Segura's confectionary was
located here following
World War II. — — Map (db m236676) HM
The original Victorian structure here
housed the Furlong Photography Studio
and the Post Office and later the T.J.
Raywood Liquor Company. Rebuilt after
a 1913 fire it became the Bridge Bar.
The original structure was the first
commercial . . . — — Map (db m236662) HM
Architects: Issac H. & William M. Rapp
Founded as W.N. Chick & Co. before the
Civil War, the firm became Chick, Browne
& Co. in 1858 and Browne & Manzanares
in 1878. Commission houses served as
ordering agents, transporters and
wholesalers . . . — — Map (db m236597) HM
Frank Chapman maintained a granary
and later a billiard parlor in this oldest
structure on Bridge Street. David
Winternitz later added to the building
for his growing general
hardware business. — — Map (db m236696) HM
John Hill was the "supervising architect" using a Kirchner & Kirchner design. Built during a surge of civic improvements in New Town which included sidewalks, parks, and schools. Said to be the first municipal building in New Mexico. The structure . . . — — Map (db m45890) HM
First Mary J. Woods and later Clara
Waring, were the first to introduce
bookstores to Las Vegas. Later, in the
1930's, Mrs. C. L. M. Bailey also
operated a bookstore in this building. — — Map (db m236638) HM
Santa Fe Trail merchants, the Dold brothers built this two-story Territorial style adobe building around the nave of the town’s first church, Nuestra Señora de los Dolores. — — Map (db m148857) HM
Built for Andres Dold
Designed by Charles Wheelock
Site of Brownlee, Winters & Co.,
druggists, before being sold to
attorney John De Witt Veeder.
The Dold brothers, Andres & John,
were listed among the top five wealth
holders in New Mexico . . . — — Map (db m236738) HM
Dr. Meta L. Christy. Meta L. Christy, DO, is recognized by the American Osteopathic Association as the first black osteopath. Dr. Christy graduated in 1921 from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine as its first black . . . — — Map (db m45889) HM
Design by E.W. Hart • Built by M. M. Sundt
Named for Las Vegas’s first mayor, merchant, and benefactor, Don Eugenio Romero. The Fire Company was formed in 1882 and continued in service as a volunteer organization until 2003. Throughout that . . . — — Map (db m64894) HM
Imagine the excitement when, on July 4, 1879, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad steamed into town for the first time. Suddenly you could travel from Kansas City to Las Vegas in days, not months. But the arrival of the railroad marked the . . . — — Map (db m236613) HM
The Engine was built for the Santa Fe Railroad Co. by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, in 1902 & used in regular service on various divisions of the Santa Fe Railroad in New Mexico, for 51 years. It's last trip in railroad service ended in Belen, . . . — — Map (db m45888) HM
Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert Raised on a ranch at La Liendre, Fabiola received a degree from New Mexico Normal School. She worked as a rural teacher and an agricultural Home Extension agent. In the 1930s, she became a charter member of La . . . — — Map (db m280213) HM
Contractor: Charles Stebbins &
Frank Martsoff
Founded by pioneer bankers, the
Raynolds brothers, the First National
Bank expanded to Albuquerque and
El Paso. — — Map (db m236702) HM
Once the largest post in the Southwest, Fort Union was established to control the Jicarilla Apaches and Utes, to protect the Santa Fe Trail, and to serve as a supply depot for other New Mexico forts. The arrival of the railroad and the . . . — — Map (db m55197) HM
Architects: Issac H. & William M. Rapp
The firm of Otero & Whiting was founded
by Miguel A. Otero in Kansas in 1861.
This large commission company came to
Las Vegas with the railroad and operated
as Otero, Sellar & Co. until 1879. The
firm . . . — — Map (db m236632) HM
Interstate 25 cuts through dipping strata that form hogback ridges between the Great Plains and the south end of the Rocky Mountains. The Santa Fe Trail from here to Santa Fe, followed a natural valley eroded in less resistant strata between the . . . — — Map (db m55196) HM
“Don Luis” Stern’s trademark slogan was “La Tienda Barata”—or the inexpensive shop. Later the site of the West Las Vegas Town Hall and jail. The cells still exist in the rear of the building. — — Map (db m64897) HM
The Mexican-American War had just begun in 1846, when Brigadier General Stephen Watts Kearny brought a regiment of U.S. soldiers and volunteers from the Missouri River into Las Vegas. From a rooftop overlooking the Las Vegas plaza he proclaimed . . . — — Map (db m236778) HM
Old Town Las Vegas property owners and over 60 private investors created an innovative partnership to rehabilitate 15 buildings in the Plaza, Bridge Street and Distrito de las Escuelas National Historic Districts. La Plaza Vieja Partnership was a . . . — — Map (db m236688) HM
The chance meeting near this spot on Nov. 13, 1821, of Capt. Pedro Gallego's militia with William Becknell's party from Missouri led to the opening of the Santa Fe Trail. — — Map (db m236775) HM
Las Vegas served as an important stop on the Santa Fe Trail and later as a major railroad center. Here General Kearny announced the annexation of New Mexico by the U.S. in 1846. In 1862, during the Confederate occupation of Santa Fe, Las Vegas . . . — — Map (db m45887) HM
Louis Ilfeld was the attorney for
the Charles Ilfeld Company. The building
later housed the popular
La Galleria de los Artesanos. — — Map (db m236732) HM
Originally a two-story Victorian
hardware store for Marwede, Brumley &
Co., then restructured by Ludwig Ilfeld
after a 1913 fire, this building later
housed the N.T. and
Fair Department Stores. — — Map (db m236665) HM
One of the oldest buildings in Las Vegas.
Home of Alcalde Juan de Dios Maese.
Site of General Stephen Watts Kearny's
proclamation claiming Nuevo Mexico
for the United States, August 15, 1846. — — Map (db m236726) HM
Built by the Maloof family on the
site of the W. H. Shupp Carriage
Manufactory, called the “best carriage
works in the Territory,” which
supplied rolling stock throughout
New Mexico and Arizona. The El Rialto
Restaurant was established . . . — — Map (db m236693) HM
Built by Charles Blanchard. Site of Paul Marcellino's Music Hall. Boffo and Perez Marcellino were also fruit dealers on the Plaza. Korte's Furniture has been located here since 1957 — — Map (db m236690) HM
Architect: Henry C. Trost
Contractor: Maurice M. Sundt
Built by a community hotel corporation headed by Louis C. Ilfeld. A fight in the lobby between Judge David J. Leahy and muckraking journalist Carl C. Magee left an innocent bystander dead . . . — — Map (db m236580) HM
Built as a saloon and clubrooms by U.S.
Deputy Marshall N. T. Cordova and J.G.
Montano, it later served as the store
and warehouse for a prominent wool
and hides company. — — Map (db m236646) HM
Architect: Charles Wheelock • Contractor: John Bennett Wooten Built by a consortium led by Benigno Romero and Jean Pendaries to replace the two-story Territorial Style adobe Las Vegas Hotel. — — Map (db m64925) HM
Mr. Acalde, and people of New Mexico: I have come amongst you by the orders of my government, to take possession of your country, and extend over it the law of the United States, we consider it, and have done so for some time, a part of the . . . — — Map (db m148846) HM
Near this spot on November 13, 1821, a band of six Missouri traders led by William Becknell, encountered a force of more than 400 Mexican soldiers, militia, and Pueblo Indians under the command of Caption Pedro Ignacio Gallego. This . . . — — Map (db m280214) HM
The Rawlins House was built in 1898
by William W. and Josephine Rawlins.
The Rawlins House was the dormitory
for the Harvey Girls who worked at
the Castaneda Hotel. In 1949 it was
purchased by Eisabel and Matilde Pena.
It operated as the Pena . . . — — Map (db m236604) HM
Architects: Issac H. & William M. Rapp
Built by Secundino and Cleofes Romero.
One of the last California Mission
Revival Style buildings built in
Las Vegas. Drug stores have occupied
this corner of the Plaza since the
arrival of the railroad . . . — — Map (db m236700) HM
Home of Las Vegas's founder Miguel
Romero y Baca, and family, this
structure was rebuilt by District Court
stenographer William E. Gortner. — — Map (db m236724) HM
The Veeder Brothers were attorneys
and community leaders. They
resided on the second floor while
Hofmeister's Grocery occupied
the first floor. This is the only
Panel Brick Style building on the Plaza. — — Map (db m236750) HM
James Gang members Dick Liddell and
Robert Ford, who was convicted and
pardoned for shooting Jesse James in
the back, opened the Bank Saloon here. — — Map (db m236669) HM
Originally a two-story building that
housed the Wells Fargo Express
Office as well as retail space.
By 1908 the third story
had been added. The building
is an excellent example of World's
Fair Classic Architecture. — — Map (db m236635) HM
At age nineteen, David Chevalier
Winters ran the Trinidad Enterprise
newspaper before coming to Las Vegas
in 1880 as a druggist. The building was
later a saloon and billiard parlor. — — Map (db m236685) HM
Built by M.M. Sundt
Architects: Issac H. & William M. Rapp
The YMCA was organized in Las Vegas in 1900 with Attorney A.T. Rogers as president. The "Y" flourished for two decades before closing in 1924. The building then served as the Las Vegas . . . — — Map (db m45891) HM
