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New Mexico National Historic Landmarks

Abo – 5/21/2001
A pueblo ruin that is said to date back to the 1300s and a major trading station during its time

Acoma Pueblo - 5/22/2001
A Native American pueblo built on top of a 367-foot sandstone mesa, also known as "Sky City"

Bandelier CCC - 4/30/2017
The 31 buildings built during the Depression by the Civilian Conservation Corps illustrate the guiding principles of National Park Service Rustic architecture, being based on local materials and styles

Barrio De Analco (Santa Fe) - 4/30/2017
The district represents one of the oldest clusters of what were working- or lower-class residences in North America, and are in a cross-section of pre-statehood architectural styles

Ernest L. Blumenschein House (Taos) - 4/28/2017
The single-story adobe home of the painter, a co-founder of the Taos Society of Artists and one of the "Taos Six"

Ernie Pyle House (Albuquerque) - 4/29/2017
Built in 1940, it was the home of famed war correspondent Ernie Pyle from then until his untimely death in 1945 during World War II

Glorieta Pass Battlefield - 4/30/2017
The site of a Civil War battle that ended Confederate ambitions to cut off the West from the Union

Kit Carson House (Taos) - 4/28/2017
From 1843 until his death, the home of the frontiersman and a good example of Spanish Colonial architecture

Las Trampas Historic District (Las Trampas) - 9/10/2008
Founded in 1751 by twelve Spanish families from Santa Fe and considered a model of the adobe architecture found throughout New Mexico

Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (Los Alamos) - 4/30/2017
The laboratory was founded during World War II as a secret, centralized facility to coordinate the scientific research of the Manhattan Project, the Allied project to develop the first nuclear weapons

Mabel Dodge Luhan House (Taos) - 4/28/2017
The home of the arts supporter and writer where she hosted well-known writers, painters, photographers, and musicians, and nurturing the young Taos art colony

NPS Region III HQ (Santa Fe) - 4/30/2017
The office, a masterpiece of Spanish Pueblo Revival architecture, provides support for Park Service properties throughout the intermountain region of the American Southwest

Palace of the Governors (Santa Fe) - 4/30/2017
An adobe structure that served as the seat of government for the state of New Mexico for centuries, and the oldest continuously occupied public building in the U.S.

Pecos Pueblo – 6/4/1995
A Pueblo community occupied for over 400 years, where the Spanish built and occupied a mission at the site for about 200 of those years

Quarai - 4/29/2017
The archaeological remains of prehistoric Native American settlements, a pueblo that was abandoned in the 1670s during the Spanish colonial period, a 17th-century Spanish mission compound, and 19th-century Spanish ranching artifacts

Raton Pass - 6/3/1995 (photo 4/28/2017)
A mountain pass along the Colorado/New Mexico border on the Santa Fe Trail

San Estevan Del Rey Mission (Church) (Acoma) – 5/22/2001
A large adobe Spanish mission church that was founded in 1629 at Acoma Pueblo, named for Saint Stephen I of Hungary

San Francisco de Asis Mission Church (Ranchos de Taos) - 4/28/2017
Built between 1772 and 1816, it is one of the finest extant examples of a Spanish Colonial New Mexico mission church

San Gabriel de Yungue-Ouinge - 4/28/2017
The site of the first Spanish capital of its provincial territory of Santa Fe de Nuevo México

San Jose De Gracia Church (Las Trampas) - 9/10/2008
A church built between 1760 and 1776, also known as Church of Santo Tomas Del Rio de Las Trampas

Santa Fe Plaza (Santa Fe) - 9/10/2008
The center gathering place in town, echoing the traditional Spanish-American colonial cities

Seton Village (Santa Fe) - 4/30/2017
Encompasses a residential settlement and educational facility established in 1930 by Ernest Thompson Seton, an educator, conservationist and founder of the Boy Scouts of America

Taos Pueblo (Taos) - 4/28/2017
An ancient pueblo belonging to a Tiwa-speaking tribe of Puebloan people, considered to be one of the oldest continuously inhabited communities in the U.S.

Wagon Mound (Wagon Mound) - 4/28/2017
A butte that was a major landmark for pioneers along the Cimarron Cutoff of the Old Santa Fe Trail

Watrous (Watrous) - 4/28/2017
Encompasses the historic junction point of the two major branches (Mountain and Cimmaron Cutoff) of the Santa Fe Trail