South Central New Mexico

In 2006, Dr. David Kammer submitted a multiple property listing titled “Movie Theaters in New Mexico built from 1905 to 1960” to the National Park Service for a National Register of Historic Places consideration. It was the first step in the nomination process and an important acknowledgement by The New Mexico Historic Preservation Division of its support of the New Mexico Main Street Program’s quest to identify the state’s historic movie houses. While not specifically named in the nomination, (letters…

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St. Anne’s Chapel, located just east of the turnoff into Devil’s Canyon on U.S. 70 was added to the State Register of Cultural Properties in 2002. According to John W. Murphey, the National Register Coordinator for the New Mexico Historic Preservation Division at the time, the chapel was approved based on its being the first permanent Protestant church between Alamogordo and Roswell and for its association with New Mexico architect John Gaw Meem. The chapel also has an association with…

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“Men have always had organizations like Rotary,” said Sharon Hefker. “For years the Carrizozo Woman’s Club was the only woman’s organization around here. Of course, it was the ladies that were discussing what needed to be done with the men who then carried on and did those projects.” The club began in 1920 in Oscura and was federated with the International General Federation of Women’s Clubs later that same year. The club’s first president, Mrs. R. E. (Maude) Blaney was…

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