Las Vegas, NM

Whether touring on foot, or by bicycle, car or bus, Las Vegas, New Mexico provides the visitor with an architectural experience perhaps unparalleled in the Great American Southwest.

From the indigenous adobe architecture of New Mexico to the glamorous, machine-age International Style, Las Vegas boasts excellent examples of nearly every important architectural residential style built in the United States between 1840 and 1940. Many of these houses are in pristine condition; some unmodified for over 100 years.

Las Vegas continues to fascinate not only for its architecture, but for its unique city planning. The Old Town Plaza was established on high ground above the Gallinas River for irrigation purposes; the area that is now Bridge Street and Moreno, San Juan and Valencia Streets was used by settlers to grow crops. Streets in Old Town radiate from the Plaza like spokes of a wheel.They tended to follow natural features of the land such as arroyos, hills and cow trails. The Las Vegas Plaza, with these characteristics intact, is probably the best preserved in New Mexico.

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• New Mexico
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• American Southwest

[choppylight]

I lived and went to school their I highly recommend estallas cafe or the realto they are right across from each other awesome Mexican food best in town by far

[WombatVlogs]

Hoping to move here in about 9 months :D Looks like an amazing town when it comes to architecture :) (Especially when you're a bit of a wild west nut like me)

[zekejordan]

You should show montezuma as well im trying to show my friends what its like there so they'll want to come :) maybe you do a video aimed at 18/19 year olds? :D please and thank you