Las Vegas City Hall, 626 Sixth Street, Las Vegas, San Miguel County, NM

Significance: Constructed between 1892 and 1896, this handsome stone building served first as town hall and fire department for the newly (1888) incorporated Town of East Las Vegas. Between 1893 and 1904 it additionally served as the community's first library when a reading room run by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union opened in a corner room of the first floor. The principal city offices, those of the clerk and police chief, were located on the ground floor. Rooms were rented upstairs to the school board for use by the eighth grade class and public high school. That high school graduated its first and only class in 1898 and then moved to the newly opened Normal University. The City Hall, a solidly built and well-designed Italianate Romanesque structure reflected the community's railroad-influenced Eastern styles and the local expertise of the Pettine Brothers masons. It continued to serve Las Vegas as the headquarters of its police and fire departments.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-20
Survey number: HABS NM-99
Building/structure dates: 1892- 1896 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1937 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1947-1950 Subsequent Work