National Register of Historic Places
Silver City Historic District (Boundary Increase)
Silver City, Grant County, New Mexico
The record
- Listed
- September 25, 2013
- Type
- Historic district
- Address
- Roughly bounded by College Ave., the "Big Ditch", San Vicente & Black, Silver City
- County
- Grant
- State
- New Mexico
- Contributing resources
- 16 buildings
- Coordinates
- 32.76815, -108.27644
- Reference number
- 13000767
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The story
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The Silver City Historic District (Boundary Increase) is a historic district in Silver City, Grant County, listed in the National Register in 2013. Its buildings include Territorial Revival, Streamline Moderne, Art Deco and Mission Revival designs.
Why it's listed
It was listed under criteria A and C, with local significance in architecture and community planning and development.
Physical character
The walls are brick or stucco on concrete foundations, and rolled roofing covers some roofs. Details include steel casement windows, glass block windows and a glass block transom, and the sidewalks are stamped. A 1947 addition went onto the Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Company Building, and the Murray Hotel received a large addition in 1949.
Historical context
The Silver City Power Company built an Ice Storage Building in 1917 that stored ice for the town, and the Texas-Louisiana Power Plant was erected in 1927. A flood destroyed Silver City's original Main Street in 1895, the first streets were paved in 1915, and the Bullard Hotel was built c. 1916. The El Sol Theater went up in 1934, the Silver City Post Office and the Dr. N.D. Frazin Office in 1935, the Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Company Building in 1936 and the Murray Hotel in 1938. Later buildings include the Food Locker Plant of 1944, the Gila Theater of 1949-1950 and the American Legion Hall of 1950.