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| Hotel Castaneda - a mission style Harvey House built in 1898 |
We travelled portions of the Santa Fe Trail. Along the route we stopped at Las Vegas NM. It is the county seat of San Miguel County, New Mexico. Las Vegas was established in 1835 and prospered as a stop on the Santa Fe Trail. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad arrived at Las Vegas from the North on July 4, 1879. During the railroad era Las Vegas boomed, quickly becoming one of the largest cities in the American Southwest. Turn-of-the-century Las Vegas featured all the modern amenities, including an electric street railway, the "Duncan Opera House" at the northeast corner of 6th Street and Douglas Avenue, a Carnegie library, the Castañeda Hotel (a major Harvey House)...... [per Wikipedia].
Click for: Harvey Houses in the old west
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| Hotel Castaneda |
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| G at Hotel Castaneda |
The train rolls right past the hotel and the station is next door. This is an Amtrak station on the Southwest Chief route.
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| Amtrak Station as viewed from the Castaneda Hotel |
Las Vegas has numerous historic structures (mostly railroad-era houses and commercial buildings), with over 900 listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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| At the corner of Grand and Douglas |
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| The El Fidel Hotel |
Continuing on to Colorado.............
(c) N. Retzke 2022
