The survey area of the Historic Resources of Las Vegas covers a 1570 acre area containing the historic city as it developed between 1835 and 1935, with a population, now as at the end of that period, of ten to twelve thousand. The approximately 920 historic structures and features comprise nine already-registered historic districts and seventy individual properties. The Gallinas River, flowing through the city, once was the dividing line between West and East Las Vegas. The two communities were consolidated in 1970. West of the river is the Plaza/Bridge Street commercial area and the adobe, Hispanic residential areas, of the Distrito de las Escuelas and Old Town Residential District. East of the river is the Railroad Avenue/Douglas-Sixth Street commercial area and the Anglo American residential neighborhoods: Library Park, North New Town and Lincoln Park (the proposed expansion of which is attached as a district nomination). The full range of building types and styles of the New Mexican Territorial Period (1848-1912), excepting only Indian construction, are represented. The vast majority of the structures are unmodified or little modified. - NRHP, 14 August 1985
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