Lost Las Vegas 26 - NMHU

Cunningham /Goke House
Photo from Donnelly Collection #1657
Courtesy of the Citizens' Committee for Historic Preservation

Thomas/Tamme House
Photo Courtesy of Museum of N.M.
# 132812

Henriquez House
Photo Courtesy of Museum of N.M.
# 88157
31. Cunningham/Goke House W side 6th near Columbia ca.1883-ca.1960
32. Thomas/Tamme House NW corner Columbia & 5th ca.1882-ca.1904
33. Henriquez House NW corner 6th & National ca.1882-1948
By 1895, Hillsite Park, now known as Carnegie Park, was completely surrounded by wood frame homes, many of them being highly decorated Victorians. This was the neighborhood for many of the more affluent: bankers, doctors, lawyers, railroad managers and conductors.

The building on the top was Dr. J.M. Cunningham's, a homeopathic physician and surgeon, President of the San Miguel National Bank in 1892, and the second mayor of the town of East Las Vegas. Later Henry and Gomecinda R. Goke lived here, both were popular merchants in Sapello, N.M. This Queen Anne style home was removed to make room for a parking lot.

David Thomas and his wife, came to Las Vegas, from N.Y. via Chicago and Emporia KS., and built this fantastic Eastlake style cottage, that used a sunburst motif and roof cresting. Charlie and Emelie Tamme later moved in, after Mrs. Thomas died, but probably fire caused this home's ruin shortly after.

Dr. and Emilia Otero Henriquez built this Victorian Italianate house. The house was built with a second story balcony, a feature common to Hillsite Park homes. This house was removed to make room for a new church.

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