page_title: Las Vegas, New Mexico
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: Las Vegas, New Mexico / Libraries and museums / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: English: Amtrak Station in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Former "Castenada" Harvey House and Santa Fe Railway train depot.
context_page_description: Las Vegas is a city in and the county seat of San Miguel County, New Mexico, United States. Once two separate municipalities, both were named Las Vegas—West Las Vegas and East Las Vegas; they are separated by the Gallinas River and retain distinct characters and separate, rival school districts.
  The population was 13,753 at the 2010 census. Las Vegas, NM is located 110 miles south of Raton, New Mexico, 65 miles east of Santa Fe, New Mexico, 122 miles northeast of Albuquerque, New Mexico, 257 miles south of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and 326 miles south of Denver, Colorado.
context_section_description: Las Vegas has numerous historic structures (mostly railroad-era houses and commercial buildings), with over 900 listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Although many buildings are in varying states of deterioration, others have been restored or are awaiting restoration. Some of the city's notable buildings include:
  Dr. H.J. Mueller House, now a Bed and Breakfast called Crow's Nest Bed and Breakfast. An 1881 example of Victorian eclecticism with unusual octagonal tower
  Plaza Hotel, 1881, site of the first reunion of Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders in 1899
  Old City Hall, New Mexico's first municipal building, completed in 1892
  Louis Fort House, Queen Anne house on Carnegie Park, built in 1895
  Masonic Temple, Richardsonian Romanesque building erected in 1895
  La Castaneda Hotel, mission-style Harvey House built in 1898
  Carnegie Library, built in 1903 at the center of Carnegie Park and modeled after Monticello
caption: Historic Castaneda railway hotel as seen from I-25
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