List of National Historic Landmarks in New Mexico

This is a complete List of National Historic Landmarks in New Mexico. New Mexico has 44 National Historic Landmarks (NHLs), including Raton Pass which is shared with Colorado, and listed by the National Park Service as in that state.

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Current NHLs

The NHLs are distributed across 22 of New Mexico's 33 counties.

Landmark name[1] Image Year listed[1] Locality[1][2] County[1] Description[3]
1 Abo 01962-06-13 June 13, 1962 Abo
 Torrance Pueblo ruins, and ruins of a Spanish mission, Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument
2 Acoma Pueblo 01960-10-09 October 9, 1960 Acoma Pueblo
 Cibola Native American pueblo built atop a 367-foot (112 m) sandstone mesa
3 Bandelier CCC Historic District 01987-05-28 May 28, 1987 Bandelier National Monument
 Los Alamos and Sandoval Civilian Conservation Corps buildings
4 Barrio De Analco Historic District 01968-11-24 November 24, 1968 Santa Fe
 Santa Fe Historic district including the oldest house and the oldest church in the United States
5 Big Bead Mesa 01964-07-19 July 19, 1964 Casa Salazar
 Sandoval Fortified Navajo village site; served as a base for trade and raiding from 1745 to 1812
6 Blackwater Draw 01961-01-20 January 20, 1961 Clovis
 Roosevelt Archaeological type site of the Clovis culture
7 Ernest L. Blumenschein House 01965-12-21 December 21, 1965 Taos
 Taos Home of painter Ernest L. Blumenschein, co-founder of Taos Art Colony
8 Carlsbad Irrigation District 01964-07-19 July 19, 1964 Carlsbad
 Eddy Irrigation-related dams, spillways, other structures
9 Kit Carson House 01963-05-23 May 23, 1963 Taos
 Taos Home of frontiersman Kit Carson
10 El Santuario De Chimayo 01970-04-15 April 15, 1970 Chimayo
 Santa Fe Roman Catholic church, famous for the story of its founding and as a contemporary pilgrimage site
11 Folsom Site 01961-01-20 January 20, 1961 Folsom
 Colfax Archaeological site; type site for the Folsom tradition
12 Fort Bayard Site 02004-03-19 March 19, 2004 Santa Clara
 Grant Site of an 1866 post of Buffalo Soldiers
13 Glorieta Pass Battlefield 01961-11-05 November 5, 1961 Pecos
}		 San Miguel Site of decisive American Civil War Battle of Glorieta Pass
14 Hawikuh 01960-10-09 October 9, 1960 Zuni
 Valencia Largest of the Zuni pueblos; founded in the 13th century
15 Las Trampas Historic District 01967-05-28 May 28, 1967 Las Trampas
 Taos Founded in 1751 by twelve Spanish families from Santa Fe; known for the church of San José de Gracia
16 Lincoln Historic District 01960-12-19 December 19, 1960 Lincoln
 Lincoln Well-preserved cow town
17 Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory 01965-12-21 December 21, 1965 Los Alamos
 Los Alamos United States Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratory; site of the Manhattan Project
18 Mabel Dodge Luhan House 01991-12-04 December 4, 1991 Taos
 Taos Artists' haven, now a historic inn
19 Manuelito Complex 01964-07-19 July 19, 1964 Manuelito
 McKinley NRHP 66000894
20 Mesilla Plaza 01961-07-04 July 4, 1961 Mesilla
 Dona Ana NRHP 66000475
21 National Park Service Southwest Regional Office 01987-05-28 May 28, 1987 Santa Fe
 Santa Fe Masterpiece of Spanish/Pueblo revival architecture
22 Georgia O'Keeffe Home and Studio 01998-08-05 August 5, 1998 Abiquiu
 Rio Arriba Home and studio of artist Georgia O'Keeffe
23 Palace of the Governors 01960-10-09 October 9, 1960 Santa Fe
 Santa Fe Adobe structure; construction began in 1610; served as the seat of government in New Mexico for centuries; oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States
24 Pecos Pueblo 01960-10-09 October 9, 1960 Pecos
 San Miguel NRHP 66000485, Pecos National Historical Park
25 Puye Ruins 01966-05-23 May 23, 1966 Espanola
 Rio Arriba and Sandoval NRHP 66000481
26 Ernie Pyle House 02006-06-20 June 20, 2006 Albuquerque
 Bernalillo Former home of famed war correspondent Ernie Pyle
27 Quarai 01962-06-13 June 13, 1962 Manzano
 Torrance Ruins in Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument
28 Rabbit Ears image pending 01963-05-23 May 23, 1963 Clayton
 Union Twin mountain peaks that were landmarks to wagon trains
29 Raton Pass 01960-12-19 December 19, 1960 Raton, NM and Trinidad, CO Colfax, NM and Las Animas, CO Mountain pass on the Santa Fe Trail along the Colorado-New Mexico border. Also in Colorado.
30 San Estevan Del Rey Mission Church 01970-04-15 April 15, 1970 Acoma
 Valencia Church founded in 1629
31 San Francisco de Assisi Mission Church 01970-04-15 April 15, 1970 Ranchos de Taos
 Taos Mission church on Ranchos de Taos Plaza
32 San Gabriel De Yungue-ouinge 01964-07-19 July 19, 1964 Espanola
 Rio Arriba First Spanish capitol of New Mexico
33 San José de Gracia Church 01970-04-15 April 15, 1970 Las Trampas
 Taos Built between 1760 and 1776; model of the adobe architecture; once used by Los Hermanos Penitentes
34 San Lazaro 01964-07-19 July 19, 1964 Santa Fe
 Santa Fe NRHP 66000490
35 Sandia Cave image pending 01961-01-20 January 20, 1961 Bernalillo
 Sandoval NRHP 66000487
36 Santa Fe Plaza 01960-12-19 December 19, 1960 Santa Fe
 Santa Fe Central park lined with grass, trees, and benches; Indian War Memorial monument; performing arts stage
37 Seton Village 01965-12-21 December 21, 1965 Santa Fe
 Santa Fe NRHP 66000492
38 Taos Pueblo 01960-10-09 October 9, 1960 Taos
 Taos Ancient pueblo belonging to a Northern Tiwa speaking Native American tribe of Pueblo people; approximately 1000 years old; multi-storied residential complex of reddish-brown adobe divided into two parts by the Rio Pueblo de Taos
39 Trinity Site 01965-12-21 December 21, 1965 Bingham
 Socorro Site of the first test of technology for a nuclear weapon
40 Village of Columbus and Camp Furlong 01975-05-15 May 15, 1975 Columbus
 Luna Site of 1914 raid by Pancho Villa that had wide impacts
41 Wagon Mound 01963-05-23 May 23, 1963 Wagon Mound
 Mora Landmark on the Santa Fe Trail
42 Watrous 01963-05-23 May 23, 1963 Watrous
 Mora Mountain and Cimarron Cutoff routes of Santa Fe Trail joined here
43 White Sands V-2 Launching Site 01985-10-03 October 3, 1985 White Sands Missile Range
 Dona Ana
44 Zuni-Cibola Complex 01974-12-02 December 2, 1974 Zuni Pueblo
 Cibola, McKinley, and Valencia NRHP 74002267

Historic areas of the NPS in New Mexico

National Historical Parks, some National Monuments, and certain other areas listed in the National Park system are historic landmarks of national importance that are highly protected already, often before the inauguration of the NHL program in 1960, and are then often not also named NHLs per se. There are nine of these in New Mexico. The National Park Service lists these fourteen together with the NHLs in the state,[4]

They are:

Landmark name
 Image Date established[5] Location County Description
1 Aztec Ruins National Monument 01923-01-24 January 24, 1923 Aztec San Juan Preserves ancestral Pueblo structures in north-western New Mexico
2 Bandelier National Monument 01916-02-11 February 11, 1916 Santa Fe Sandoval and Los Alamos Includes Frijoles Canyon; contains (restored) ruins of dwellings, kivas, rock paintings and petroglyphs
3 Chaco Culture National Historical Park 01907-03-11 March 11, 1907 Farmington San Juan and McKinley Densest and most exceptional concentration of pueblos in the American Southwest
4 El Morro National Monument 01906-12-08 December 8, 1906 Ramah Cibola Sandstone promontory with a pool of water at its base; shaded oasis in the western U.S. deser; Zuni Indians call it "A'ts'ina" (Place of writings on the rock); Anglo-Americans called it "Inscription Rock"; travelers left signatures, names, dates, and stories of their treks
5 Fort Union National Monument 01956-04-05 April 5, 1956 Las Vegas, NM Mora Preserves the second of three forts constructed on the site beginning in 1851; also ruins of the third; visible network of ruts from the old Santa Fe Trail
6 Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument 01907-11-16 November 16, 1907 Silver City Catron Cliff dwellings from the 1280s through the early 1300s
7 Pecos National Historical Park 01965-06-28 June 28, 1965 Santa Fe Santa Fe and San Miguel Includes parts of Glorieta Pass Battlefield, an NHL, as well as a mission and other areas.
8 Petroglyph National Monument 01990-06-27 June 27, 1990 Albuquerque Bernalillo Variety of cultural and natural resources including five volcanic cones, hundreds of archeological sites and an estimated 25,000 images carved by native peoples and early Spanish settlers
9 Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument 01909-11-01 November 1, 1909 Albuquerque Torrance and Socorro Reminders of this earliest contact between Pueblo Indians and Spanish Colonials: the ruins of four mission churches and the partially excavated pueblo of Las Humanas

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d National Park Service (June 2011). "National Historic Landmarks Survey: List of National Historic Landmarks by State" (PDF). http://www.cr.nps.gov/nhl/designations/Lists/LIST11.pdf. Retrieved 2011-07-04. .
  2. ^ National Park Service. "National Historic Landmark Program: NHL Database". http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/default.cfm. Retrieved 2007-08-14. 
  3. ^ National Park Service. "National Historic Landmark Program: NHL Database". http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/default.cfm.  Retrieved on various dates.
  4. ^ These are listed on p.114 of "National Historic Landmarks Survey: List of National Historic Landmarks by State", November 2007 version.
  5. ^ Date of listing as National Historic Site or similar designation, from various sources in articles indexed.

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