Douglas-Sixth Street Historic District

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

Douglas-Sixth Street Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Roughly bounded by Grand, Lincoln, and 7th Sts., and University Ave., Las Vegas, New Mexico
Coordinates	35°35′41″N 105°12′14″W
Area	9 acres (3.6 ha)
Built	1879
Built by	Multiple
Architect	Rapp and Rapp
Architectural style	Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals, Late Victorian
MPS	Las Vegas New Mexico MRA (AD)
NRHP reference No.	83001626[1]
Added to NRHP	July 21, 1983

The district is 9 acres (3.6 ha) in area and is roughly bounded by Grand St., Lincoln St., 7th St., and University Ave.[2]

It was deemed significant as "the best example of a turn-of-the-century commercial and institutional center remaining in New Mexico. In addition to stores, offices and banks, the district housed various institutions of civic improvement, including the state's first city hall, an opera house (now demolished), a Masonic Temple and a YMCA. Its buildings retain the scale, space, and—to a large extent— the architectural quality of the district as it had developed by 1922. The buildings represent a sometimes provincial, though competent, realization of a variety of architectural styles originating in the East and California. The district contains a significant collection of buildings (at least four and perhaps as many as eight) designed by the important, though little studied, Western architects, Rapp and Rapp. Of secondary significance, the district contains three examples of local stonecarving and, in addition, represents a typical example of railroad-era, speculative town planning."[2]

It includes the Masonic Temple, at 514 Douglas, (see photos 5, 8, 18), a Richardsonian Romanesque structure built in 1894–95, designed by Rapp and Rapp and built by W.F. Kean during 1894–95.[2]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
2. Chris Wilson (September 30, 1982). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Douglas-Sixth Street Historic District". National Park Service. Retrieved June 22, 2019. With accompanying 17 photos from 1882 to 1982