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6 miles northwest of Las Vegas in Gallinas Canyon 35°39′15″N 105°16′53″W / 35.654167°N 105.281389°W / 35.654167; -105.281389 ( Montezuma Hotel Las Vegas
The Plaza Hotel, built in 1881, on the Plaza of West Las Vegas New Mexico Insane Asylum in Las Vegas, 1904. Las Vegas was established in 1835 after a group of settlers received a land grant from the Mexican government. (The land had previously been granted to Luis María Cabeza de Baca, whose family later received a settlement.) The town was ...
Old Town Residential Historic District is a historic district dating back to 1840. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [1]The district plus the previously NRHP-listed Distrito de las Escuelas comprises the majority of the historic residential architecture of West Las Vegas, mostly adobe structures.
It was funded in 1914 by a $75,000 appropriation of the New Mexico State Legislature, and was designed by Las Vegas architect E.W. Hart in style compatible with the campus's Springer Hall. World War I intervened however, causing delay, and then the low bid for construction was over the appropriated sum. Charles Ilfeld made a contribution of ...
Former football star and celebrity criminal defendant O.J. Simpson was cremated Wednesday, the lawyer handling his estate said following his death last week at home in Las Vegas at age 76.
It is believed that in 1880, Chávez murdered a dangerous convict in a New Mexico jail. Chávez became adrift after Billy the Kid's death in 1881, traveling across the American Southwest, sometimes without any particular destination in mind. He did arrive at Las Vegas, New Mexico, in time to meet Bob Ford, the killer of Jesse James. According ...
The Douglas-Sixth Street Historic District, in Las Vegas, New Mexico, is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The listing included 18 contributing buildings, a contributing site, and two contributing objects. [1] Municipal Building/Old City Hall
St. Paul's Memorial Episcopal Church and Guild Hall is a historic church at 714–716 National Avenue in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Construction took place from 1886 to 1888, and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. Though the church structure was constructed in the late-1880s, it was not completed until 1950.