This small cottage is a good example of the "New Mexico Vernacular" or common house type found throughout northern New Mexico. Typically, the walls are adobe, and a simple gable roof with porch (covered by corrugated metal) provides protection from the elements. At the end of South Gonzales, turn right on South Pacific Street and proceed north (back towards the Old Town Plaza. Incidentally, South Pacific Street was the route that the wagons of the Santa Fe Trail used to exit Las Vegas on the final leg of the journey to Santa Fe. Imagine this street 130 years ago as a long string of one-room-width adobe houses with portals (porches) and people busy selling milk, cheese, and local produce to the wagons as they passed by. Immediately on your left, a house with a handsome porch: