Home    Travel    NHLs

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
NHL Image
Acoma Pueblo - 5/22/2001
A Native American pueblo built on top of a 367-foot sandstone mesa, also known as "Sky City"
NHL Image
Bandelier CCCPlaque - 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
NHL Image
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
NHL Image
Ernest L. Blumenschein HousePlaque (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"
NHL Image
Ernie Pyle HousePlaque (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
NHL Image
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
NHL Image
Kit Carson HousePlaque (Taos) - 4/28/2017
From 1843 until his death, the home of the frontiersman and a good example of Spanish Colonial architecture
NHL Image
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
NHL Image
Los Alamos Scientific LaboratoryPlaque (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
NHL Image
Mabel Dodge Luhan HousePlaque (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
NHL Image
NPS Region III HQPlaque (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
NHL Image
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.
NHL Image
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
NHL Image
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
NHL Image
Raton Pass - 6/3/1995 (photo 4/28/2017)
A mountain pass along the Colorado/New Mexico border on the Santa Fe Trail
NHL Image
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
NHL Image
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
NHL Image
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
NHL Image
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
NHL Image
Santa Fe PlazaPlaque (Santa Fe) - 9/10/2008
The center gathering place in town, echoing the traditional Spanish-American colonial cities
NHL Image
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
NHL Image
Taos PuebloPlaque (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.
NHL Image
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
NHL Image
Watrous (Watrous) - 4/28/2017
Encompasses the historic junction point of the two major branches (Mountain and Cimmaron Cutoff) of the Santa Fe Trail
NHL Image