Railroad Avenue Historic District


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  • Sight Category: Historic District

415 Railroad Avenue (RR); Panel Brick; 1879-83; 1 story; stone rubble walls (sides), brick (front); large wooden doors; finished stone piers; elaborate brickwork with recessed panels, corbeling and blind arcading.

Ward and Tamme's Monarch Hall (Casino Bar); SW corner RR and Lincoln; W.F.C.; 1902-08; 1 story; brick walls, zipper joints at corner cut; main windows covered, side casement/hopper (?) windows and single door with segmental arches and projecting crenelated frame; banded brick piers with plaster escutcheons; pressed metal cornice with scroll brackets paired over piers.

Wells Fargo Express Building (KNMX); 615 Lincoln; W.F.C.; 1902-08; by Rapp & Rapp (?); 3 stories, brick walls; 1st floor: fixed windows with leaded transom, double doors with transom; single door with transom brick piers with sandstone capitals and entablature (entrance to upper floors); small windows with rusticated sandstone sills and two single doors, all with arched heads with projecting brick frames (side). 2nd and 3rd floors: 1/1 double-hung window with continuous sill/base (2nd) or with transom and continuous lintel/entablature (3rd), unified by banded pilasters with sandstone Corinthian capitals. Pressed metal cornice with dentils and modillions; short attic; pressed metal cornice with centered pediment.

Boston Clothing Store (Time Store); SE corner Grand and Lincoln; W.F.C.; 1902-08; 2 stories; brick walls; 1/2 of 1st floor opened for auto drive-through, ca. 1925, mural/map of northern New Mexico on wall; side windows and single door entry with arched head and projecting brick accents; 1/1 double-hung windows (2nd) with continuous projecting brick sills and splayed sandstone lintels with projecting keystones which touch pressed metal molding string course; semi-circular bay with 3 1/1 double-hung windows separated by pilasters and with continuous sill (lines up with projecting brick sill of other windows), and entablature (lines up with molding course), topped by strapwork balustrade; pressed metal cornice with dentils and egg and dart pattern; geometric pattern with two tones x>f brick between string course and cornice.

Center Block; NE corner Grand and Lincoln; Richardsonian Romanesque; 1902-08; 2 story; brick walls; corner oriel tower with conical roof; fixed windows with leaded transom and round arched head (1st); corner cut entry, door with side lights and transom; wrought iron in arches; brick piers with rusticated cap and brick arches organize fixed window, entrance and 1 blind arch; double-hung windows and single door (side, 1st) with leaded, arched transoms and projecting brick accents; 1/1 double-hung window with rusticated sandstone sills and segmental arches (2nd); cornice of blind arcading on corbeled bases

(Pioneer Lounge); 610 (?) Lincoln; W.F.C.; 1902-08; 2 stories, brickwalls; (covered) fixed windows; 2 single doors with transoms; 1/1 double-hung window with continuous sill; banded brick pilasters (center of 3 rests on corbeling) with stone capitals; projecting (stone ?) pediment on brick "entablature;" brick parapet with paired (stone?) scroll brackets at peak.

Strousse and Bacharach Building (Martin's Welding); 515 RR; W.F.C.; 1898-1902; by Rapp & Rapp?; 2 stories; fixed windows with transoms, large wooden doors (1st); 3 Palladian window groups (1/1 double-hung window flanking large fixed window topped by fixed lunette, separated by banded piers and topped by molding cornice), each group separated by banded brick piers with pressed metal capitals and continuous string course-pressed metal cornice with dentils and lion's heads; brick parapet with pressed metal cornice urns.

Rawlins House Lodgings; 531 (?) RR; W.F.C.; 1898-1902; 2 stories; brick walls (side), pressed metal sheathing (front); (covered) fixed windows and two double doors with transoms, 1 single door (1st); 1/1 double-hung windows separated by pressed metal (?) pilasters and 1 floral/aquatic panel; pressed metal cornice with bosses, fleur-de-lis, brackets and garlands.

Brown/and Manzanares Co. Warehouse (Hays Plumbing) NE corner Douglas and RR; St. Register #321; W.F.C.; 1898-1902; 3 stories; brick (front and side), stucco and stone rubble (rear); 1/1 double-hung windows (1st) with side lights, sandstone sills connected by recessed panel (2nd to 3rd) with round head (3rd) with projecting brick arches, resting on pressed metal molding (2nd); recessed, paired slits and geometric pattern with two tones of brick (attic).

Santa Fe Railroad (Amtrak) Depot; end of Lincoln at RR tracks; Mission Style; 1898-1902; 1 story, hipped roof with 2 gabled two story masses fronted by mixtilinear parapets; 9/1 double-hung window (2nd); multiple/1 and doors with transoms all with arched heads, establish pattern of arches continued in arcaded porch at north end; large overhanging porch supported by wrought iron brackets.

Gross-Blackwell/later Kelly (PNM) Building; SE corner Lincoln; and RR Ave; St. Register #323; 1898-1902 2 story office block, 1919 1 story docks. Office block: sandstone foundation; banded brick "podium" with molding cap supporting arched windows; 2 double doors with side lights and fan light; paired Roman windows with projecting brick frame with ears touching molding string course at top; loggia with Ionic columns; pressed metal (?) dentil cornice and parapet cap. Docks: reinforced concrete construction. - NRHP, 14 August 1985


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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1902/00/00 Rapp and Rapp Architect Wells Fargo Express Building 615 Lincoln by Rapp and Rapp

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Particulars for Railroad Avenue Historic District:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Sight Category Historic District
Architectural Style Neoclassical
Owner Private
Historic Attribute Railroad Commercial
Owner State



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration: 6th August 1979

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name: Railroad Avenue Historic District
Registry Address: U.S. 85
Registry Number: 79001551
Resource Type: District
Theme Group: Las Vegas New Mexico MRA (AD)
Owner: Private, State
Architect: Rapp and Rapp
Architectural Style: Classical revival, Other
Attribute: Railroad Commercial
Area in Acres: 16
Contributing Buildings: 22
Non-Contributing Buildings: 9
Other Certification: Additional documentation
Certification: Listed in the National Register
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: State
Area of Significance: Architecture
Applicable Criteria: Architecture-Engineering
Period of Significance: 1875-1899
Significant Year: 1879
Historic Function: Commerce, Trade
Current Function: Commerce, Trade
Current Sub-Function:

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