8 28 1842 Archbishop of the diocese of Santa Fe, is a native of France, his birth having occurred at Mende, in the department of Lozere, on the 28th of August, 1842. He descended from a French family of land-owners, which also numbered many members who found entrance into…
Very Rev. James H. Defouri, pastor of the Church of Our Lady of Sorrows, Catholic, at Las Vegas, is a native of Savoy, France, born at the villa of La Palud, in the parish of St. Jean de la Porte, on the 29th of August, 1830. At the age…
Upon returning to Spain in 1493 after his first voyage, Christopher Columbus contacted Pope Alexander VI (a Spaniard by birth) to report his discoveries. Acting as the great European arbiter of the day, the pope then issued a bull (decree) that divided the New World lands between Spain and…
By Gregg Gonzales From 1760 to 1859, La Castrense Church (the Military Chapel), stood on the south side of the Santa Fe Plaza across from the Palace of the Governors. The church’s official name was Nuesta Señora de la Luz (Our Lady of the Light), however, most of the…
Lincoln County Wars, outlaws, first Protestant church, Hondo Valley; St. Anne's Chapel By The Episcopal Church of Lincoln County The historical events which led up to the building of St. Anne’s Chapel begin with the Lincoln County War, when the Coe brothers, Al, Lou, Frank and George, moved into…
Union County Courthouse; Court Street, Clayton, New Mexico; Union County The Union County Courthouse sits on a slight rise southwest of Clayton’s business district; its shiny silver dome visible for blocks. Constructed in 1909 to replace an earlier courthouse destroyed by a tornado, the Union County Courthouse designed to…
St. Catherine's Industrial Indian School Situated on a hill northwest of the Santa Fe Plaza, overlooking two cemeteries, is perhaps the largest adobe building in the Southwest. With more than three stories and a façade of sturdy gables and a spindly bell tower, the 1887 Main Building is the…
Judge Seaman Field House; Deming, New Mexico Across the street from the 1917 Deming Armory (a three-story, red-brick government building with an imposing façade), the Judge Seaman Field House, a low, white residence with shingled roof and decorative gable windows is literally a building from another era. With initial…
Located 15 miles southeast of Gallup at Ojo del Oso (Bear Springs), near the headwaters of the Rio Puerco Fort Wingate (Historic District) Fort Wingate, McKinley County On July 4, 1903, Gregory Page, a Gallup businessman, wrote an essay protesting a possible closure of Fort Wingate, an aging 1860s…
Holm Bursom House; Socorro New Mexico Located at the end of a residential block and surrounded by a white picket fence, this house on Church Street in Socorro, with its red brick construction, gabled roof and Victorian details, looks out of place on a street of low slung, adobe-like…
