South Central New Mexico

Some properties on the National Register of Historic Places are listed as “address restricted.” Many of these properties are archeological finds and their restricted status is meant to protect them from vandals who might scavenge valuable artifacts. Unfortunately, in the case of Wizard’s Roost, a prehistoric solstice observatory located in Lincoln County, such secrecy did not protect the site. Sometime in the late 1980s, a person or persons unknown scattered the stones that signaled stellar alignments used thousands of years…

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Bruce Dietrich wrote the application for registration of Rolland’s Drug Store in Carrizozo to the New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties in 2003. The property, built in 1924, was accepted as an example of a utilitarian commercial structure of the time. Its appearance and materials that make up its façade were meant to ooze stability, respectability and no-nonsense in economic insecure times, as it had in countless communities across the nation in the first decades of the 20th century….

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