Roughly bounded by Perey St. to Mills Ave. and from New Mexico to Gonzales St., Las Vegas, New Mexico. County/parish: San Miguel.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 28, 1983. NRIS 83004161.
254 contributing buildings.
Old Town Residential Historic District is a historic district dating back to 1840. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
The district plus the previously NRHP-listed Distrito de las Escuelas comprises the majority of the historic residential architecture of West Las Vegas, mostly adobe structures. Las Vegas was established in 1835 as a land grant from the Mexican government to a group of twenty-nine families.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/77846618