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Las Vegas City Hall, 626 Sixth Street, Las Vegas, County, NM
Location626 Sixth Street,
Las%25252BVegas, NM
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS NM-99
Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (FN-20).
Building/structure dates:
1892 initial construction
Building/structure dates:
1937 subsequent work
Building/structure dates:
1947 subsequent work
Significance: Constructed between 1892 and 1896, this handsome stone building served first as town hall and fire department for the newly (1888) incorporated Town of East Las Vegas. Between 1893 and 1904 it additionally served as the community's first library when a reading room run by the Women's Christian Temperance Union opened in a corner room of the first floor. The principal city offices, those of the clerk and police chief, were located on the ground floor. Rooms were rented upstairs to the school board for use by the eighth grade class and public high school. That high school graduated its first and only class in 1898 and then moved to the newly opened Normal University. The City Hall, a solidly built and well-designed Italianate Romanesque structure reflected the community's railroad-influenced Eastern styles and the local expertise of the Pettine Brothers masons. It continued to serve Las Vegas as the headquarters of its police and fire departments.
Subjects
Municipal GovernmentEducationLaw Enforcement
Related Names
Kirchner, H. W.
Williams, William R.
Neill, John
Kirchner, A. H.
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Pettine & Sons
Swanson, Betsy, Photographer
Brooker, Kathleen, Historian
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. Main and side elevations
2. Main elevation
3. Main doorway
4. Interior,newel post and bannister
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