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| SOLD |
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| Status: *SOLD* |
| Listing Provided By : Larry W. Brow |
| Type: Retail |
| Bed • Bath • 33,000 Sq. Ft. |
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| "Crockett Building", Las Vegas, New Mexico, 87701 |
The Crockett Building was designed as a mixture of the many different styles that the Rapp brothers had utilized in their career as architects. Influenced by the La Castaneda Hotel's Mission Revival styling, the Rapp's used tin roofing with a clay-tile appearance to top the oriel windows and capped the corners of the building with minimalist Missionesque parapeted corner towers. The addition of the medieval shaped oriel windows gives the towers more the look of battlements, resulting in a simplified Gothic Revival feeling overall. The use of Victorian brackets, Italianate grouped circle top windows, and neo-classical touches, such as dentils and a classical side entry, shows how the Rapp brothers freely experimented with the design, eschewing any strict interpretation of style.
Built on the site and foundation of the grand St. Nicholas Hotel, on the prominent corner of Sixth and Douglas Streets, William L. Crockett built one of the largest commercial structures in "new town" Las Vegas, New Mexico. The buff-brick Crockett Block was built in 1899, replacing one of the last large frame structures in New Town. The prolific Rapp brothers were the visionaries for what is likely Las Vegas' most eclectic architectural design. More than any other building in Las Vegas, the Crockett Block building became the focal point for a "downtown", as two street railway lines passed in a curvilinear fashion in front of the building.
William L. Crockett was born around 1852 in Somerset County, Maryland. By 1880, he had moved to New Mexico and became a sheep farmer at the Gallinas Crossing Ranch, south of Las Vegas. He translated his successes as a shepherd into retiring as a landlord of his Crockett Block. His block of suites for rent was soon filled with the offices of many of the elite businesses in town. By 1903, physician attorney Andrieus A. Jones, physician B.D. Black, Business Men's Protective Association, Colorado Telephone & Telegraph Co., J.M. Cunningham, professor Thomas D. Raly, insurance agent G.H. Dinkel, First National Bank, stenographer William E. Gortner, dentist E.L. Hammand, and druggist Edward G. Murphey to name a few prior tenants - the number of business offices in the Crockett Block exhibits its enormous size, as well as its importance to the business community.
The name that has the strongest association with the Crockett Building was and still is Edward G. Murphey's Drug Store at 600 Douglas Street. Murphey was born in 1857 and, as a young man, was a druggist for the Northern Illinois Hospital for the Insane in Elgin, Illinois. A bachelor his entire life, Murphey dedicated himself to his store in the Crockett Block Building and expanded his enterprise to include bookselling and the postcard business. In this regard, Murphey became one of Las Vegas' most important photographers. Though he died in 1920, the Crockett Block bears his business name today.
Location: 600, 602, 604 Douglas Avenue, Las Vegas, New Mexico. Located in National Register Historic District.
Size: approximately 33,000 sq ft.
Floors: The building is three levels with a full basement, ground floor and second floor
Tax Credits: The present owner has received approval for Federal and State tax Credits in proportion to the renovation costs.
Age: Built in 1899
Income: Presently the restaurant and one retail space is available for rent and architectural plans are available for 11 high end apartments up stairs.
Price: SOLD!
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