Lost Las Vegas 10 - NMHU

Looking South from the Rumaldo Baca Building
Photo from Donnelly Collection #1492
Courtesy of the Citizens' Committee for Historic Preservation

Detail of J.J. Stoner's 1882 Bird's Eye View May
Artist: Henry Wellge
12. Grandview HotelW side S. Pacific between Valley & Blanchard ca. l865-1889
The Grandview Hotel was owned and operated by the Sutfins. During the years before the Plaza Hotel the Grandview was used by many travelers. Sophie A. Poe exclaims, "Grand View Hotel! Oh yes I have heard of it...As we drew in sight of it...I realized how misplaced my imaginings had been. Fred escorted me to an old run-down, two-story adobe building, with the plaster broken and falling from the mud brick wall, the windowpanes cracked, and in some places nearly missing. As I climbed to my room in the second story, the creaking of the rickety stairway, which was the only means of access to that part of the establishment, gave me a panic-stricken feeling. But the room I had been given reassured me. It was quite clean and comfortable. When I looked about the Mexican town surrounding the Hotel, I was reminded of old scenes in Nicaragua. I felt in friendly intimacy with the squatty, dirty-roofed brown houses..."*

In this photo, taken from the balcony of Don Rumaldo's building, many homes of the poorer classes are shown with the arrowed Grandview Hotel beyond. In this area of New Mexico many of the poor suffered in debt servitude to local Dons. The poor contributed by shearing sheep, herding stock, bush-whacking, selling wood, working on farms, and working as servants. The Hotel was removed to make room for a school.

*Father Stanley, The Las Vegas NM Story, pg.86-7

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