New Mexico

Located along El Camino Real, this property is listed on the New Mexico Register of Cultural Properties and the National Register of Historic Places. Its name comes from the family who built it in the years following the Civil War. It was originally the private residence, built in 1868, of James L. (Santiago) Hubbell, a merchant and trader; his wife Julianita Gutierrez-Hubbell; and their twelve children, all of whom were born in the house.

This Gothic Revival chapel, started in 1873 and completed in 1878, was built by young French architect Projectus Mouly for the Sisters of Loretto. In 1855, Jean Baptiste Lamy moved the Loretto Academy here into a former hotel he bought in 1854, La Casa Americana (the American House).

Built circa 1786 for Lobato, an armorer and soldier of Santa Fe’s Royal Spanish Garrison. Santa Fe Trail trader Don Gaspar Ortiz y Alarid bought the buildint in 1852. The ruins of Santa Fe’s fortress and powder magazine, La Garita (little guardhouse), built in 1807, stood just northeast of the house until 1954. Private residence; photo permissions not granted.

Born in Sonora, Mexico, Doña Maria Gertrudes Barcelo operated her lavishly decorated saloon and gambling hall here from 1832-36 until her death. Reputedly the best monte dealer in Santa Fe, the red-haired, cigar-smoking “Doña Tules” soon grew wealthy. Historic Burro Alley is adjacent to the building.

Quebec-born Santa Fe Trail trader Francois Aubry, whose enduring fame came in 1848, after racing on horseback across the Santa Fe Trail from here to Independence, Missouri in record time (five days, 16 hours) to win a $1,000 bet, died here in 1854 after a bar room argument with ex-newspaperman Richard Weightman.

One of two surviving Ft. Marcy officers’ quarters built around 1871, it became a 10-day vacation home for former President Ulysses S. Grant and his family in 1880. Bought in 1904 by Bergere, the England-born son of a wealthy Italian shipping magnate, the 7-room home got a full second floor and Pueblo Revival Style makeover in 1926.

In her published memoirs (1954; Land Of Enchantment), Santa Fe Trail traveler Marian Russell recalled her widowed mother, Eliza, operating a $45 a month boarding house here in 1852-54. It is now the home of the New Mexico Museum of Art.

This surviving Fort Marcy officers’ quarters, once the Quartermaster’s home, was remodeled in the Pueblo Revival Style in 1916. Fort Marcy was built in 1846 and was the first in New Mexico Territory. The building became the lifetime home of the Edgar Lee Hewett, the Director of the Museum of New Mexico (in 1909) and School of American Research (1917).

Doña "Tules" Barcelo’s one-story, flat-roofed, courtyard home was just across the street from her saloon and gambling hall. Born around 1800-1811, she died here in 1852. The Pueblo Revival Style court house replaced it in 1940.

At 109, 111 & 115 East Palace Avenue, peek into the plazas that date back to the Santa Fe Trail era, located behind the buildings along Palace Avenue - they host shops and restaurants today.