Clovis Railroad and Commercial Historic District

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CPRC REVIEW MEETING DRAFT JUNE 21, 2013
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APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION
NEW MEXICO STATE REGISTER OF CULTURAL PROPERTIES
Historic Preservation Division
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407 Galisteo Street, Suite 236
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501
(505) 827-6320
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Name of Property: Clovis Railroad and Commercial Historic District
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Location of Property:
County: Curry
Congressional District: 3
Municipality: Clovis
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Location of Legal Description for Property:
Courthouse, Deed Registry, etc.: Curry County Courthouse
Street and Number: 700 North Main Street
City, Town, Zip Code: Clovis, New Mexico
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Present Condition of Property:
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Present and Original Physical Appearance of Property: Provide a detailed description of the
archaeological and/or architectural features present, include construction dates, dates of significant
alterations, extent of any vandalism, etc. Use one or more continuation sheets.
See Continuation Sheets.
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Summary of Property Data:
Period of Significance: ca. 1907 – 1968
Significant Dates: 1907, 1908, 1912, 1931
Culture/Period/Phase: Historic
Architect/Builder: Marvin Knedler (Citizens Bank); Schaefer and Merrell (Courthouse); Myron Church
(Harvey Hotel)
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historically significant persons associated with property, reference documentary sources, etc.
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Bibliographical References: See Continuation Sheet.
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Geographical Information:
Map Reference: (USGS 7.5' Quad) Clovis, New Mexico
Legal Description: (Describe to the nearest 1/4 1/4 1/4 Section (10 acres))
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Acreage of Property: +/- 100 Acres
UTM Coordinates:
A. 13/664830/3808617
C. 13/665791/3807823
Clovis Original
B. 13/665070/3808619
D. 13/664740/3807820
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Geographical Data:
Verbal Boundary Description: (Describe the boundaries of the property)
The Clovis Railroad and Commercial Historic District is roughly bound by 8th Street on the north, the alley
to the east of Pile Street on the east, the railroad tracks on the south, and the alley to the west of Mitchell
Street on the west. The district is T-shaped with Main Street serving as the long spine, and the railroad
serving as the top of the T at the south end. At the southern end, the district spans roughly between
Connelly and Prince streets on the south side of First Street (see boundary sketch map). The total area
included in the district is approximately 100 acres.
Verbal Boundary Justification: (Explain why the boundaries were selected)
This area represents the core commercial and railroad resources with the highest degree of integrity. To
the north, the area is predominantly commercial with some residential resources mixed in. Many of the
resources represent more recent construction, and there is greater distance between resource groupings.
To the west and east, the area transitions into mainly residential. The southern boundary is the railroad
right-of-way.
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Photographs: (Provide a log of archival B&W photographs submitted with nomination)
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Future Research Questions: (If applicable, develop a list of questions that could be pursued by future
researchers)
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Application Submitted By:
Name:
Heather Barrett
Date: May 2013
Organization: New Mexico MainStreet
Address:
945 Hess Terrace, Las Cruces, NM 88005
Zip: 88005
Phone: 575.523.1289
Inventory Data By: Heather Barrett
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Date: March 2009 to April 2013 (two phases)
National Register Eligibility:
Yes:
No:
Criteria A:
B:
Further research is required to establish National Register eligibility.
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D:
Area of Significance:
This Space for Cultural Properties Review Committee Use Only
Date Application Received:
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APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION FORM A
NEW MEXICO STATE REGISTER OF CULTURAL PROPERTIES Revised 05/18/07
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Section: 9
Property:
Clovis, Curry County, New Mexico
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Description
Clovis was established as a division point on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe (AT & SF)
Railway in 1906, and the first passenger train arrived on December 18, 1907. The town soon
became a center for the railroad, agriculture, and ranching. Located at an elevation of 4,266 feet
on the High Plains of east-central New Mexico, Clovis is the Curry County seat, boasting a
population of nearly 40,000 people today. The Texas state line is approximately 10 miles to the
east, and Portales, New Mexico, home to Eastern New Mexico University and the Roosevelt
County seat, is about 20 miles to the south. U.S. Highways 60/84 and 70, which becomes New
Mexico Highway 209, intersect in Clovis.
Located west of town, the Clovis Army Air Field, later known as Canon Air Force Base (CAFB),
was established in 1942. In addition to the railroad, CAFB is one of the largest employers of the
area.
Present and Original Physical Appearance of Property
In October of 1906, railroad officials bought 640 acres of land, and on April 13, 1907 they filed the
Clovis town site plat (Figure 1). Land was set aside for churches and a public school. Railroad
facilities, including a large roundhouse, machine shops, offices for division personnel, and a
Harvey Hotel, were established at the south end of Main Street, encompassing about half of
Section 18. As evidenced by the 1909 Sanborn map, the commercial district began to burgeon
along Main Street almost immediately. The monikers of “Magic City” and “Infant Wonder of the
West” were soon tied to Clovis, as the first official Census showed 3,255 people in 1910.
In addition to Main Street, early commercial development predominantly occurred on two adjoining
parallel streets – Pile and Mitchell – as well as along Hagerman (now First Street), which parallels
and is adjacent to the railroad tracks. Historically, both Mitchell and Pile streets included a
combination of residential and commercial buildings; however, there are fewer dwellings on these
streets within the district boundary today, and if there are houses, most have been converted into
businesses. In the mid-to-late twentieth century, additional modern commercial development took
place along Prince Street (State Highway 209), which runs north and south.
Clovis retains many two-story brick buildings with decorative corbelled cornices that date to the
town’s establishment. These historic buildings display varying degrees of integrity; many received
altered storefronts in the mid-twentieth century. Some retain enough integrity to be eligible under
Criteria A & C; others are eligible under Criterion A only; and, a few have been too
compromised and are considered non-contributing. The address chart at the end of Section 9
further details resource status.
Some of the oldest residential areas adjacent to downtown are located to the east near Gidding
Street and to the west near Connelly Street. Early twentieth century Bungalows and Revival styles
such as Tudor, Mission, and Spanish Colonial are seen in great numbers in these areas. The area
around Gidding Street may, in fact, be an eligible residential district.
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The Clovis Railroad and Commercial Historic District encompasses approximately 100 acres and
is roughly bound by 8th Street on the north, Pile Street on the east, the railroad tracks on the
south, and Mitchell Street on the west. Both sides of Pile and Mitchell streets are included within
the boundary. The district is T-shaped with Main Street serving as the long spine, and the railroad
serving as the top of the T at the south end. At the southern end, the district spans roughly
between Connelly and Prince streets on the south side of First Street (see boundary sketch map).
The majority of the commercial resources date from 1908 to 1968.
Of the 213 resources in the district, 139 or 65% are considered contributing. Those figures
incorporate nine resources within the district that are individually listed in the State and/or National
Registers, including: Clovis Central Fire Station (SR#1381, NRHP # 406657); the 1908 Clovis City
Hall and Fire Station (SR#1380, NRHP # 406656); Clovis Post Office (SR#1108, NRHP #
395280); Curry County Courthouse (SR#1274, NRHP # 406435); the First Methodist Church
(SR#1379, NRHP # 406658); the Hotel Clovis (SR#1109, NRHP # 395278); Lyceum Theater
(SR#1897, NRHP # 355918); the Santa Fe Passenger Depot (SR#421, NRHP # 423852); and,
the State Theater (SR#1899, NRHP # 355920).
The Clovis town site developed on a grid system with streets ranging between 80 and 100 feet.1 In
1918, the north end of Main Street, between 4th and 8th streets, was paved with bricks. These
brick streets still survive today and are considered a contributing feature to the district. For flood
control and slowing traffic on Main Street, the streets dip down at intersections, serving as a
natural speed bump. There are a few small circular bronze markers with “Patent Pending, City of
New Orleans” located in the sidewalks, especially on the side streets. One example may be found
to the south of the Bank of Clovis at 300 North Main Street. The average lot measures roughly 16
to 30 feet wide by 150 feet deep. Twenty-foot alleys separate blocks running north-south.
Clovis preserves a variety of resource types within the district, including railroad-related buildings,
grocer warehouses, grain elevators, an impressive hotel, service stations, theaters, and many one
and two-story commercial buildings. A wide array of architectural styles are represented,
including: the Mission Revival of the Gran Quivira (the Harvey Hotel) and Depot buildings, the
Greek Revival of the First Methodist Church, the Art Deco of the Curry County Courthouse and
Hotel Clovis, and the Decorative Brick Commercial style of Mandell’s Department Store and the
Walker Oil & Motor Company station. Clovis also includes several Modernist banks that date to
the 1960s.
Clovis retains a fine collection of grain elevators and agricultural-related warehouses as well – a
relatively rare resource type found within New Mexico towns in this concentration. The grain
elevators range in style from a wood-framed structure clad with corrugated metal to massive
concrete cylinders that are grouped in large facilities. These resources create an imposing
southern boundary for the district and are iconic images in the skyline, as one approaches from
the south.
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These measurements are taken from historic Sanborn maps and include the entire streetscape (including
sidewalks).
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CONTRIBUTING RESOURCES IN THE DISTRICT
The following contributing resources reflect the predominantly commercial and industrial nature of
the Clovis Railroad and Commercial Historic District. The resources listed below are organized
alphabetically, by street address, and provide a selection of historic buildings and property types
that illustrate the quality, breadth, and character of this district. Additional resources are outlined in
the address chart of Section 9.
Harvey House, Depot, and BSNF Offices, 113 South Connelly Street, 221 West First
Street, and South Main Street, Photos 1, 1A, & 2
The main buildings that are associated with the railroad today include the Gran Quivira (Harvey
House), the Santa Fe Passenger Depot (SR # 1614, NRHP # 423852), and the Burlington
Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) offices – all substantial structures designed in the Mission Revival
style. The depot, now the Model Train Museum, was built in 1907 – the year the town was
founded (Photo 1). The depot included division point offices, the passenger station, and boarding
facilities for train crews between assignments. A Railway Express building and a small Harvey
newsstand, both similarly detailed, flanked the depot; unfortunately, neither building survives.
The Depot has a central two-story section framed by one-story ends. It has a stucco exterior with
gabled roofs covered with terracotta tiles. Broad eaves supported by heavy wooden brackets are
a distinctive feature, as are the original six-over-six double hung windows resting on projecting
sills. An arched platform, at the east end, provided outdoor space for passengers waiting for
trains. The building was listed in the National Register in 1996, and it was subsequently restored
to its 1950s-1960s appearance. A 1906 Baldwin Steam locomotive (Photo 1A) stands in front of
the depot on a section of track and is considered a contributing object to the district.
The Gran Quivira (Photo 2), which was constructed circa 1912, is a two-story building with wings
extending from the southeast and northwest corners.2 The name of Gran Quivira, which has long
been associated with the building, is derived from the Tompiro Indian pueblo, located many
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miles to the west near present-day Mountainair. Santa Fe architect Myron Church designed the
building, which features a stucco exterior painted pink, curvilinear-shaped parapets, and a tiled
roof punctuated by numerous interior and exterior chimneys. Generous overhanging eaves are
accented with exposed rafter tails and wood brackets. Five-paneled wood doors and original
wood-framed casement windows are plentiful. The second story windows rest on a continuous sill,
which encircles the building. The Gran Quivira is currently vacant, but owned by the BNSF
railroad. The railroad has offered the structure to the City. The building is one of the larger Harvey
Houses still surviving in New Mexico; it has enormous potential for rehabilitation and contribution
to Clovis.
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The Harvey Hotel is found on the 1912 Sanborn Map.
Richard Melzer, Fred Harvey Houses of the Southwest, (San Fransico, CA: Arcadia Publishing), 63.
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The hotel originally included 35 guest rooms, a 54-seat lunchroom, and a 94-seat dining room,
when it opened in 1912.4 The 1912 Sanborn Map includes notations for the dining room, the
lunchroom, the kitchen, and the office. Steam heat and electric lights are also noted.
The two-story BNSF office building on South Main Street has a stucco exterior, painted pink to
match the Depot and Gran Quivira. It shares the same style, curvilinear parapets, and roof
covered with terracotta tiles as the other two buildings. The office building stands on a raised
basement and is located immediately east of the Harvey House. It includes numerous one-overone double hung windows, some of which rest on slightly projecting sills.
These three railroad buildings are fairly intact and represent an important collection for a major
division point in eastern New Mexico.
Waples-Platter Company, 205 East Curry, Photo 3
This building housing the Waples-Platter Company, a wholesale grocer, was built in the 1920s.
The one-story reinforced concrete building stands on an elevated concrete foundation. The
front elevation, which faces north, has an earthen ramp leading to a double-leaf wood plank
door in the center. Concrete steps lead to another single-leaf door to the left, which is framed
by two-over-two double hung wood-framed windows, which rest on projecting sills. There is
another window located to the right of the large door. A molded concrete cornice supported by
brackets and concrete coping cap this elevation, providing a more refined façade, perhaps
indicating the building also served as a market. The rear elevation, which joins an inactive
railroad spur, includes a concrete loading dock, a double-leaf door, and the ghost mark of
Waples-Platter Grocer Co. In 1932, the city directory shows Robert E. Lee, a local rancher, as
the manager.5
J.M. Radford Grocer Company, 111-113 East 5th Street, Photo 4
This brick building, which dates to the 1920s, retains much of its early twentieth-century fabric
and character. The façade includes three large service bays separated by brick pilasters. Wood
paneled doors, each with two lights, mark the bays. A rectangular signage panel is located in
the upper façade, and a corbelled brick cornice crowns the façade. A stepped parapet marks
the roofline on the front elevation. The west elevation, at the alley, reveals hollow clay tile
construction with intermediate pilasters. Many openings are blocked, and one service bay is
located here.
Durand’s Market in Welch’s Grocery, 119 East 5th Street, Photo 4
This one-story commercial building (ca. 1920) has a red brick façade of running bond and a
side elevation that is stucco. The façade once had two entries—one was converted into a
window. The main entry is a single-leaf aluminum and glass door. Fixed pane windows, set in
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Melzer, 63.
Clovis City Directory, 1932.
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wood surrounds, provide light, and four-pane transom panels surmount all openings. Two
rectangular signage panels are located in the upper façade, which is capped by a rowlock brick
coping. The roofline of the east elevation steps back, and a second single-leaf door,
surmounted by a louvered transom, is located on this elevation. A parking lot is located
adjacent to the building on the east.
Durand’s Market in Welch’s Grocery appears in the earliest known Clovis City Directory (1932).
Walker Appliance Co., 212 East First Street & Walker Oil & Motor Co., 220 East First Street,
Photo 5
Dating to the 1930s, the two buildings associated with the former Walker Company are highly
intact examples of the Decorative Brick Commercial style with Art Deco flair. Appearing as one
long building until closer inspection, the one-story buildings are constructed of blond brick with red
brick bands, including rowlock coping and stretcher courses, which emphasize the horizontal
nature of the structures.
The Walker Appliance Company building at 212 East First Street is the smaller of the two
buildings. It is a L-shaped building with a single-leaf wood and glass door set on the diagonal at
the southeast corner. A transom surmounts the door and large, divided plate glass windows frame
the entry; this area is the office. Two large wood-paneled doors, each with 18 lights, mark the
service bays, which are setback from the office wing.
The Walker Oil & Motor Company at 220 East First Street is a long, almost rectangular building.
The façade includes three wood-paneled service bay doors with six lights each; two of the doors
are located in a slightly projecting bay. There are three single-leaf wood and glass doors
surmounted by transoms on the façade. Large plate glass windows frame the doors, and a curved
glass block opening wraps around the southeast corner of the building. On the east elevation of
this building, there is a wood paneled door that leads to a restroom. Both buildings include a
continuous, engaged metal awning above the openings.
The 1939 City Directory lists Walkers Service Station, a distributor of Shell Petroleum Products,
owned by Roy S. Walker in this location. The building at 212, which is separate but identical in
design, is listed as vacant. The 1949-1950 directory reveals that they were “approved Packard
Service” with the tagline “ask the man who owns one.”6
Clovis Mill and Elevator Company, 213 East First Street, Photo 6
The Clovis Mill and Elevator Company building, constructed in 1916 as noted on the Sanborn
maps, is a frame structure sheathed in corrugated metal. The structure is comprised of multiple
blocks at varying levels. The central, gabled section is three stories with numerous two-overtwo, wood-framed windows. The grain elevator with varying shoots coming off the rear
elevation adjoins an inactive railroad spur. Additional shed-roofed blocks extend from the north,
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Clovis City Directory, 1949-1950.
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east, and west elevations. A ghost of “The Home of the Golden West Flour” appears on the
south elevation, and a red and yellow sign is also located on the north (front) elevation. A long
shed building to the immediate west appears to be associated with the mill; it is non-contributing
due to alterations. The company is found in the 1932 city directory.
Wood’s or Grand Avenue Service Station, 120 E Grand Avenue, Photo 7
This former gas station, identified as Wood’s Service Station in the 1932 City Directory, stands
on the corner of East Grand Avenue and North Pile Street. The one-story brick building retains
its corner canopy supported by a brick pier, revealing the original function. Details include a
five-paneled wood door and a large multi-paned window set in a wood surround and resting on
a projecting sill. Rectangular signage panels are located in the upper façades facing both
streets. Brick coping tops the building. Sockets for light bulbs line the canopy openings. Three
service bays with wood doors and twelve lights each are located on the east elevation. This
building adjoins the former 1908 Clovis City Hall (SR # 1380, NRHP # 406656) and may have
originally been associated with the fire station.
H. D. Reeves Grocery, 201 West Grand Avenue, Photo 8
This one-and-a half story blond brick building (ca. 1910) sits on a corner lot at West Grand
Avenue and North Mitchell streets. The corner entrance is comprised of a single-leaf aluminum
and glass door with sidelights and a louvered transom. Pilasters, detailed with red brick bands
that create the appearance of quoining, define the bays on the east and north elevations.
Corbelled brick outlines the bays, and the pilasters project above the roofline. A red brick
rectangle is located above each bay. The windows on the north elevation are set in wood
frames with a dentil cornice. Original blue glass block transoms surmount these openings. The
east elevation includes large plate glass windows within the bays. A later addition extends to
the rear. The windows on the addition include two-over-two horizontal panes. A bold dentil and
modillion (potentially metal) cornice caps the street-facing elevations.
J.M. Radford Company Warehouse, 119 South Main Street, Photo 9
The one-story J.M. Radford Grocery Company warehouse, which rests on a raised concrete
foundation, is constructed of 6:1 common bond red brick. Steel casement windows, which rest
on projecting concrete sills, are found on all of the elevations. High in the walls is a thick
concrete band that encircles the entire building and serves as lintels for the hopper-operated
windows below. Ghost marks of old businesses, including [Kim]bell-Clovis Company, Burnham
Van Service, Bekins International Lines, American, and Ensign, are located on the north and
west elevations. The black or green lettering pops on a white background.
A single-leaf aluminum and glass door is located at the southwest corner. Concrete steps lead
to the door and a wood awning tied to the wall surmounts the door. The awning is in poor
condition and needs replacement. Large multi-paned windows frame the entrance, and three
additional windows of the same size are found on the south elevation at the southwest corner of
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the building. Again, there appear to be hopper-operated sections of the windows. Three large
service bays are found on the south elevation in the center. A massive concrete lintel caps
these bays. Two additional small bays sit high on the wall, probably signifying a loading platform
that is no longer extant. Concrete lintels also surmount these openings. An inactive railroad
spur runs along the south elevation. The east elevation has four of the smaller windows and an
old sprinkler alarm and hook-up. Corbelled coping encircles the building at the roofline.
For the most part, the interior is a large open space except for an office marked by four oneover-one, wood-framed windows set within a brick interior wall. Wide-plank pine flooring is also
visible from the door.
Hotel Clovis, 201-203 North Main Street, Photo 10
Built in 1931, the Hotel Clovis (SR#1109, NRHP # 395278) was billed as the tallest building
between Dallas and Albuquerque. The nine-story, Art Deco-inspired, building provided grand
accommodations for incoming passengers on the AT & SF Railway. The centennial anniversary
book states: “Even at the height of the Great Depression, the Hotel Clovis was extravagant.” 7
Monumental brick pilasters crowned by concrete bas-relief panels, with prominent Indian busts,
adorn the blond brick building and divide the facades into bays. These pilasters break through
the roofline, which is further defined by concrete coping. Original three-over-one double hung
windows have been replaced by modern windows with the same glazing pattern and operation.
Originally, the Hotel Clovis took nine months to complete at a cost of $300,000.
Every guest room was equipped with a telephone and bathroom with hot and cold-running
water. A grand assembly room hosted Big Band music for guests and residents alike to enjoy.
This grand hotel had languished for years, having sat vacant since the 1980s. Developer Tierra
Realty is completing an award winning multi-million dollar rehabilitation of the historic hotel
using the Federal tax credit program. The project includes two free-standing associated
structures and a community garden. The hotel will offer 8,000 square feet of commercial space
on the ground floor, as well as residential lofts on the upper floors.
Commercial Building, 214 North Main Street, Photo 11
This one-story brick commercial building has a deeply recessed entry framed by large plate
glass display windows. Black tiles with mint green accents serve as the base underneath the
windows. A single-leaf aluminum and glass door with transom is located in the center. The
vestibule has white hexagonal tiles outlined with beige and green tiles. A transom panel capped
by rowlock bricks surmounts the storefront, but the glass is currently painted. Decorative
brickwork with corbelling adorns the upper portion of this elevation, and a sign is tied to the
façade.
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Clovis’s 100 Anniversary, 14.
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According to the 1932 and 1939 City Directories, the building housed the Rodes Dry Goods
Company with Arnold A. Rodes as owner. By 1946, the business is listed as Rodes Men’s
Store. The 1965-66 directory shows Bell’s Men’s Store here.
Mandell’s Department Store, 318 North Main Street, Photo 12
This handsome Decorative Brick Commercial-style, two-story building (ca. 1929) is constructed
of dark brick (almost black) and is located on a large double lot. A recessed entry with doubleleaf aluminum and glass doors, surmounted by a transom, is centered on the Main Street
façade. Maroon and pink tiles accent the base and outline the storefront, displaying a stepped
geometric pattern. Large plate glass windows extend across the first story and frame the entry.
A glass block transom panel caps the storefront, nearly spanning the entire façade. The second
story is four bays wide; each bay includes paired one-over-one double hung wood windows that
rest on concrete sills. A soldier course extends across the façade, serving as a continuous
lintel. Concrete rectangles are located above each window grouping, and inset concrete
diamonds adorn the surface between the windows. Concrete coping caps the building, and a
neon sign on the façade announces the business. The interior includes wood floors and an
ornate pressed tin ceiling with cornice. The building housed Mandell’s Department Store for
decades in the early twentieth century.
State Theater, 504 North Main Street, Photo 13
The State Theater’s circular glass block tower rising above the marquee has been a memorable
feature of Clovis’s Main Street since the building’s construction in 1939. The theater is a two-story
Moderne building that stands on a concrete foundation. Porthole and glass block windows and
porcelain enameled steel panels in white, navy blue, and red enliven the blond brick façade. Neon
tubing on the marquee and tower embellishes the façade and street at night. Over the years,
there have been a few alterations to the original design, including the relocation of the ticket booth
from the exterior to the north wall of the interior and the addition of anodized bronze storefront
windows to the façade. A stepped parapet masks the barrel roof.
The auditorium formerly seated about 640 and is fairly intact. The proscenium features columns
framing a rounded stage. At its opening, the theater boasted the most modern furnishings,
projection and sound equipment, and heating and cooling systems.
The State Theater was constructed through a partnership between R.E. Griffith Theaters of
Dallas, Texas and the Hardwicks, who also built and owned the Lyceum Theater at 411 North
Main Street. The State Theater opened on January 3, 1940 to a full house, showing Laurel and
Hardy’s “Pack Up Your Troubles.” Described by historian David Kammer as “the most richly
detailed example of a modernistic style theater façade in New Mexico,” this building is listed in
both the State and National Registers (SR#1899, NRHP # 355920).8
Sutton’s Bakery, 515 North Main Street, Photo 14
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David Kammer, State Theater National Register Nomination, 2006.
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Sutton’s Bakery dates to the 1920s. The façade of this one-story buff brick Art Deco-style
building remains highly intact. The bakery has a single-leaf aluminum and glass door recessed
in the center and flanked by horizontal windows with rounded ends that are outlined with thin
aluminum strips. Pale yellow and blue porcelain enameled metal panels frame this composition.
A wood cornice and a glass block transom extend across the façade and surmount the
storefront. The upper façade is brick. After being in business for forty-six years, Frank
Simmonds closed the bakery doors a couple of years ago. The building was recently purchased
for a brew pub.
Bryson’s Furniture, 516 North Main Street, Photo 15
Likely dating to the 1940s, the storefront of this one-story blond brick building is recessed with
large plate glass windows spanning the front elevation. The glass on the left side meets the
entry at a diagonal. The door is wood and glass surmounted by a transom. A rowlock course
caps the storefront and serves as coping at the top of the building. A stepped parapet defines
the roofline.
Only three buildings appear in this block on the 1929 Sanborn Map. The 1946 City Directory
does not list this address. This building appears on the 1947 Sanborn Map with notations that
include steel beams providing support and “tile brick faced” at back addition, likely referring to
hollow clay tile construction. By 1949, Bryson Furniture is listed in the City Directory. They
continue here until at least the mid-1960s.
Dunn Brother’s Motor Company, 200 North Mitchell Street, Photo 16
Dunn Brothers Motor Company, built circa 1948, was housed in this handsome one-story
commercial building with a blond brick façade with rounded corners. Large plate glass windows
with paneled transoms rest on brick sills and wrap around the front corners of the building. Four
metal casement windows are also located on the south elevation. Recessed signage panels
distinguish the upper brick façades, and a red brick cornice with dentils and a soldier course
caps the building. A stucco addition with steel casements extends to the north. Service bays
and a loading door are located here as well. A separate, but perhaps associated business, is
located to the rear of the building along 2nd Street at 212. The sign reads “Automative
Warehouse.” This shop has a single-leaf aluminum and glass door flanked by divided plate
glass windows.
The 1929 Sanborn Map shows J.C. Ealey’s Lumber Yard in this location. The 1949-1950 City
Directory lists Dunn Brothers Motor Company, specializing in Nash Sales and Services, in this
building. W.T. and W.D. Dunn were the owners. The 1950 Sanborn Map shows steel trusses,
plastered walls, and a brick faced building. The small addition to the north is shown on the map,
and labeled “tile,” likely indicating hollow clay tile construction.
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Dr. P.E. Hale Office Building, 600-602 North Mitchell Street, Photo 17
This one-story commercial building (ca. 1935-1940) reflects the Art Deco style. The building is
divided into two offices. The exterior is pale blue-gray stucco with dark blue geometric
ornamentation at the roofline. Details include large round windows, a curved glass block
window on the façade, and a corner tower with articulated edges (scalloped) at the southeast.
Other window openings include metal casements that rest on projecting sills and additional
glass block openings. The doors include single-leaf entries—one wood and glass and the other,
aluminum and glass.
Early on, this building housed physician offices. The 1939 directory lists Dr. Pryde E. Hale, a
physician and surgeon, here. There is no entry for this address in the 1941 directory. The
footprint of this building is clearly shown on the 1950 Sanborn Map, but not on the 1929 map
when this area was predominantly residential. Even then, the building was divided into two
separate offices. The 1946 directory shows the offices of Lancaster and Lancaster (William M.
and Dudley D. Lancaster) here. By 1950, Dr. R.L. Curry and Dr. W.D. Dabbs had offices here.
The Citizen’s Bank of Clovis, 421 Pile Street, Photo 18
Constructed between 1967 and 1968, the bank is housed in a circular Modernist building of cast
concrete, steel, and glass. By 1969, Citizen’s had moved from their old location of 300 North
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Main Street to their new location on North Pile. The concrete creates the form with numerous
piers around the perimeter and a band around the top. The curtain wall of glass hangs behind
the concrete armature. The architect Marvin Knedler of Denver clearly used the circle as a
design generator. The motif continues on the interior, including: a circular teller station located
in the center of the lobby; a large decorative circular light hovering above the lobby; a circular
stair to the second floor; and globe lights. The offices are located around the perimeter, both on
the ground level and the second story mezzanine. Finishes include wood and glass paneling,
wood doors, and terrazzo floor in places.
The period of significance was extended to 1968 to include notable buildings such as the Citizen’s
Bank of Clovis as contributing resources.
NON-CONTRIBUTING RESOURCES
The district contains 74 non-contributing resources. Many of those buildings relate to the period
of significance, but have received incompatible additions or materials that diminish their historic
integrity. An example includes the two-story Montgomery Ward Company building, which dates
to the 1930s, at 309 North Main Street (Photo 19). Unfortunately circa 1970, the building
received an unsuitable alteration to its entire first story, including large plate glass windows set
in heavy aluminum frames, stone veneer details, and a re-oriented entrance; historic decorative
brickwork and details remain on the second story. A few resources within the boundary were
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constructed after 1968, the end of the period of significance. One example is the Clovis Public
Library at 701 North Main Street, constructed circa 1990.
REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS:
1. Built or modified between circa 1907 and 1968.
2. Period massing and form are unaltered, or if the building received additions, they do not
overly detract from or mask the original form.
3. The character-defining details of a building’s architectural style are intact or clearly
evident even if modifications have occurred.
4. The majority of replacement windows are fitted to original openings. Overall, the façade
retains original proportions of wall to openings.
5. Alterations must not substantially alter the setback and relationship of façade to street.
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Street Address
Brick Streets, Main Street
between 4th to 8th St
CONNELLY STREET
109 South Connelly Street
113 South Connelly Street
MAIN STREET
100 S. Main Street
106 S. Main Street
108 S. Main Street
119 S. Main Street
S. Main Street
100 N. Main Street
108 N. Main Street
111 N. Main Street
117 N. Main Street
115 N. Main Street
116 N. Main Street
118 N. Main Street
120-122 N. Main Street
201-203 N Main Street
206 N. Main Street
208 N. Main Street
210 N. Main Street
212 N. Main Street
214 N. Main Street
215 N. Main Street
216 N. Main Street
218 N. Main Street
(also 105 E Grand Ave)
300 N. Main Street
301 N. Main Street
303 N. Main Street
305 N. Main Street
309 N. Main Street
310 N. Main Street
311 N. Main Street
312-312 ½ N. Main Street
313 N. Main Street
315 N. Main Street
318 N. Main Street
Const. Date Original Function or Historic Name
(If known)
Ca. 1918
Style
C/NC Status Photo #
N/A
C
Baldwin Steam Locomotive #27688, 1906
Gran Quivira (Harvey Hotel), ca. 1912
Steam Locomotive
Mission Revival
C, Photo 1A
C, Photo 2
Raton Creamery Co., ca. 1930-1940
R & S Gun Shop, ca. 1930
Ca. 1930
J.M. Radford Grocery Co. Warehouse,
later Kimbell-Clovis Co. Warehouse, ca.
1940-1945
Division Pt Office Building, ca. 1920
Integrity Auto Sales, ca. 1970
Metal Shed, Modern
NM Workforce Connection, ca. 1980-1990
New Construction, Hotel Clovis Project,
Ca. 2010-2012
Ca. 1935
Ca. 1929, ca. 1970 (remodel)
Ca. 1929, ca. 1950-1960 (remodel)
Eubanks & Sons Furniture, Ca. 1937, ca.
1965 (remodel)
Hotel Clovis,
1931, ca. 2010-2012 (rehab)
Mesa Theatre, ca. 1918-1930
Ca. 1909, ca. 1970 (remodel)
Ca. 1909, ca. 1970 (remodel)
Ca. 1909, ca. 1970 (remodel)
Ca. 1909, ca. 1930 (remodel)
Dec Brick Comm
Commercial
Commercial
Warehouse
C
C
C
C, Photo 9
Mission Revival
Commercial
Commercial
Pueblo Revival
Contemporary
C
NC
NC
NC
NC
Mission Revival
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
C
NC
C
C
Art Deco
C (NR), Photo 10
Art Deco
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial w/
Deco
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
C
NC
NC
C
C, Photo 11
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
NC
NC
NC
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
Decorative Brick
Commercial
C
C
NC
NC, Photo 19
C
C
C
C
C
NC
C
C, Photo 12
C, Photo 12
Main St Office/United Way, ca. 1970
Ca. 1920, ca. 1950 (remodel)
Private Moments, ca. 1960s remodel
Wells Fargo Bank, ca. 1970
Assoc Building (113 E Grand)
Vacant, ca. 1970 remodel
Bank of Clovis, ca. 2000
Mike Morris State Farm, ca. 1908, ca. 19501960 (remodel)
Ca. 1909
Ca. 1908
Tankersley’s, ca. 1970 (remodel)
Montgomery Ward Co, Ca. 1930
Duckworth Drugs, 1909, ca. 1950 (remodel)
The Main Arteri, ca. 1960 (remodel)
Leepy Bldg, 1909, ca. 1950-60 (remodel)
Western Mortgage, ca. 1960 (remodel)
E.H. Griffith Bldg, Ca. 1909
Vacant
Ca. 1920-1929, ca. 2005 (remodel)
Mandell’s Dept Store, Ca. 1929
May Brothers Jewelry Co.,
Ca. 1910, ca. 1945 (remodel)
NC
C
C
2 NC
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Street Address
401 N. Main Street
403 N. Main Street
406 N. Main Street
410 N Main Street
412-414 N Main Street
416 N. Main Street
421 N. Main Street
501 N. Main Street
504 N Main Street
508 N. Main Street
509 N. Main Street
510 N. Main Street
511 N. Main Street
512 N. Main Street
513 N. Main Street
515 N. Main Street
516 N. Main Street
520 N. Main Street
521 N. Main Street
522 N. Main Street
600 N. Main Street
601 N. Main Street
620 N. Main Street
605, 609, 613, 617 N Main
Street
700 N. Main Street
701 N. Main Street
MITCHELL STREET
100 N Mitchell (200 1st St)
114-114 ½ N. Mitchell
Street
107 N Mitchell Street
(If known)
(historic) Woolworths, present Crafters Mall
Potter’s House
Barry’s Hardware,
Ca. 1910, ca. 1950 (remodel),
Ca. 2013 (awning)
Randy’s Work Store
Former Anthony’s Dept Store, now
Tarpley’s, ca. 1960 (remodel)
Barry Bldg, IOOF Lodge #31, ca. 1960s
(remodel)
Lyceum Theater, 1919-1920
Brown’s Shoes, ca. 1960 (remodel)
Levine’s Department Store, ca. 1960
(remodel)
Rogers-Awalt, ca. 1909
McDaniel’s, ca. 1960-1970
EPOG, ca. 1990-2000
Peck Tire Serv/New State Auto, ca. 1925
Mickey’s Uniform, ca. 1950 (remodel)
Bill’s Jumbo Burger, ca. 1980
State Theater, ca. 1940
Ca. 1940
Eubank & Sons Tires, Ca. 1940-1949
Assoc w/ Aztec, ca. 1980 (remodel)
Whatever Gifts, ca. 1930-1940,
(later remodel)
City Bakery (ca. 1920); Hicks Shoes (ca.
1950 remodel)
T G’s Hobby Shop
Sutton’s Bakery, ca. 1930
Bryson Furniture, ca. 1940
Eddie’s Subs, ca. 1950-1960
Victory Canteen, Lorraine’s, ca. 1948
Baca’s Law, ca. 1930-1940
Sport’s Angle,
Ca. 1940-1945 (remodel)
Gateway Auto Co., ca. 1939 (HCPI)
Quality Furniture, ca. 1960
First Methodist Church of Clovis
(Legacy Life Family Church)
Ca. 2010
Style
C/NC Status Photo #
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
NC
NC
NC
Commercial
Commercial
NC
C
Commercial
C
Moderne
Commercial
Commercial
C (NR)
C
C
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
Art Deco/Moderne
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
C
NC
NC
C
NC
NC
C (NR), Photo 13
C
C
NC
NC
Commercial
C
Commercial
Art Deco
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
Mission Revival
NC
C, Photo 14
C, Photo 15
C
C
C
C
Decorative Brick
Commercial
Greek Revival
C
C
C (NR)
Decorative Brick
NC
Stanley Pawol Pharmacy,
Mainstreet/Builder’s Assoc,
Ca. 1956-1957
Curry County Courthouse, ca. 1936,
Ca. 1954 (rear addition)
Clovis Public Library, 1991
Commercial
C
Art Deco
C (NR)
Commercial
NC
WH with white vinyl siding
Pax’s House & Shop, ca. 1920
Commercial
Vernacular
(residential)
Commercial
Commercial
SW Vernacular
C
2C
Modern Metal Bldg
Ca. 1940
El Mont Restaurant, ca. 1939
NC
C
C
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Street Address
211-213 N Mitchell Street
316-320 N Mitchell
516-516 ½ N Mitchell
Street
PILE STREET
112 S. Pile Street
101 N. Pile Street
110 N. Pile Street
221 N. Pile Street
300-310 N Pile Street
301 N Pile Street
305 N Pile Street
(includes 121 E 4th)
400 N Pile Street
409 N Pile Street
416 N Pile Street
421 N Pile Street
509 N Pile Street
519 N Pile Street
521 N Pile Street
600 N Pile Street
601 N Pile Street
621 N Pile Street
701 N Pile Street
709 N Pile Street
CURRY AVENUE
201 Curry Ave
205 Curry Ave
209 & 217 Curry Ave
301 Curry Ave
317-323 Curry Ave
(If known)
Dunn Brother’s Motor Co., ca. 1948
Ca. 1946
Ca. 1929
Metal Shed, Modern, ca. 1990
Clovis Central Fire Station, ca. 1930
Apartment Bldg, ca. 1940-1950
Ca. 1950-1960
Murphy-Echols Tires,
Ca. 1940, 2011 (remodel)
Barry Hardware Co Warehouse, ca. 1930,
1950-1960 (remodel)
Ponca Warehouse Merc Co, Ca. 1940
Vernacular Dwelling
Hospice of Sandia, ca. 1952
House, ca. 1930-1950
Curry County Abstract
Physicians Office, ca. 1935-1940
True Victory Church, ca. 1970
Belkins Moving Co., ca. 1940-1950
Ca. 1950 – 1960
Magistrate Court, ca. 2005-2010
Clovis City Hall & Fire Dept, 1908
Radio 101.5, ca. 1970-1980
Rowley Law Firm
Former First Federal Savings & Loan,
Wayland Baptist University, ca. 1942
Pool Law Firm
Mesa Financial, 1972
Ca. 1950
Greig & Richards Law, ca. 1937, ca. 1956
(remodel)
Vacant
Citizens Bank of Clovis, ca. 1967-1969
The Electric Company, ca. 1960
Dallas Rentals
Ca. 1940
Soto Const
Clovis News Journal, ca. 1940
Shogun Japanese Steak, 1961
Holland’s Clovis Office, ca. 1980
Sun City Homes
Century Bldg, 1936-1940
NM Bank & Trust, ca. 1965-1966
Warehouse
Waples-Platter Grocer Co. Warehouse, ca.
1920-1929
Metal shed & outbuilding
NM Elevator Co., ca. 1950s
Steel Shed, ca. 1950s
Steel Storage Tanks, ca. 1950s
State Electric, Mechanical, & Gen Const, ca.
Style
C/NC Status Photo #
Decorative Brick
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
Art Deco
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
C, Photo 16
C
C
NC
C (NR)
C
C
NC
Commercial
NC
Commercial
Vernacular
SW Vernacular
Vernacular
Commercial
Art Deco
Commercial
C
C
2C
NC
C, Photo 17
2 NC
Warehouse
Warehouse
Warehouse
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
Decorative Brick
C
C
NC
NC
C (NR)
NC
NC
C
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
NC
NC
C
C
Commercial
Modernist
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
Moderne
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
Moderne
Modernist
NC
C, Photo 18
C
NC
C
NC
C
C
NC
NC
C
C
Warehouse
Warehouse
C
C, Photo 3
Industrial
shed/outbldg
Grain Elevator
2 NC
Commercial
2 NC
3C
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Street Address
401 Curry Ave
517 Curry Ave
600 ? Curry Ave
(If known)
1980 (remodel?)
City of Clovis Electric & Water Co.
ca. 1919
Pump House
Pump House (altered - NC)
Water Tower
Family Dollar shed
Curry County Grain & Elevator Co, ca. 1921,
ca. 1944-1947, ca. 1961 (CCG Terminal C)
Office, ca. 1950 & Warehouse, ca. 1961
1st STREET
101 East 1st Street
120 East 1st Street
212 East 1st Street
High Plains Federal Credit Union, ca. 1980
R.C. Auto
Walker Appliance Co., ca. 1930s
220 East 1st Street
Walker Oil & Motor Co., ca. 1930s
213 East 1st Street
Clovis Flour Mill & Grain Elevator Co., ca.
1916
Coal Shed, ca. 1919, later remodel
Enterprise, ca. 1970
Burkett Moving & Storage Co.,
ca. 1940-1947
Metal Shed Building, ca. 1930-1947
Farmers Co-op Mills & Elevator (Peavey),
ca. 1947
Office Building, ca. 1970
Alamo Court, ca. 1947
Barnett’s Service Station, ca. 1947
Barnett’s Office
2 Steel Warehouses (612 Curry Ave)
Warehouse/Shed building, ca. 1970
Standard Service Station, ca. 1947
Ca. 1929
Warehouse, ca. 1929
Ca. 1940-1950
Ca. 1940-1950
Art’s Auto, Post 1930
Ca. 1942-1946, The Laughlin Co.
Santa Fe Passenger Depot (Clovis), 1908
201 East 1st Street
301 East 1st Street
321 East 1st Street
401 East 1st Street
505 East 1st Street
601-613 East 1st Street
617-623 East 1st Street
705 East 1st Street
717 East 1st Street
112 West 1st Street
113 West 1st Street
115 West 1st Street
117 West 1st Street
119 West 1st Street
201 West 1st Street
221 West 1st Street
2nd STREET
112 E 2nd Street
115-117 E 2nd Street
201 E 2nd Street
205 E 2nd Street
112 W 2nd Street
115 W 2nd Street
117 W 2nd Street (also 121
N Mitchell)
116-120 W 2nd Street
(also 201-209 N Mitchell)
212 W 2nd Street
New Construction, Hotel Clovis Project,
Ca. 2010-2012
Bus Depot, ca. 1950-1960
Westbrook Glass, ca. 1940
Lydick Eng & Survey, Ca. 1960-1970
Ca. 1935
(former) Clovis Farm Machinery Co.,
Ca. 1935
Ca. 1928, Indianola Creamery, later
Peerless Creamery
Ca. 1946
Automotive WH assoc w/ Dunn’s, ca. 1949
Style
C/NC Status Photo #
Commercial
3C
1 NC
Commercial
Grain Elevator
NC
3 C (elevators)
2C
Contemporary
Commercial
Decorative
Brick/Streamline
Moderne
Decorative
Brick/Streamline
Moderne
Grain Elevator
NC
NC
C, Photo 5
C, Photo 5
C, Photo 6
Commercial
Warehouse
NC
NC
C
Commercial
Grain Elevator
C
C
Commercial
Commercial
NC
NC
4C
Warehouse
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
Mission Revival
NC
C
C
NC
C
C
NC
C
C (NR), Photo 1
Contemporary
NC
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
C
C
NC
C
C
SW Vernacular
C
Commercial
C
Commercial
C
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Street Address
GRAND AVENUE
114 E Grand Ave
116 E Grand Ave
118 E Grand Ave
120 E Grand Ave
115 W
117 W
119 W
123 W
Grand Ave
Grand Ave
Grand Ave
Grand Ave
200 W Grand Ave
201 W Grand Ave
205-207 W Grand Ave
209 W Grand Ave
4th STREET
113 E 4th Street
117 E 4th Street
115 E 4th Street
113-119 W 4th Street
121 W 4th Street
123 W 4th Street
123 A W 4th Street
5th STREET
111-113 E 5th Street
119 E 5th Street
6th STREET
113 E 6th Street
107 W 6th Street
115 W 6th Street
208 W 6th Street
211 W 6th Street
7th STREET
115, 117, 119 & 121 E. 7th
201 W. 7th Street
8th STREET
117 West 8th Street
(If known)
(Plumbing, 1949 SM)
Style
C/NC Status Photo #
Auto Sales, Ca. 1929
Commercial
C
Roy Woodard & Assoc, ca. 1929-1950, later
remodel
Consignment Women’s, ca. 1919-1929
Gas Station attached to Fire Station,
Ca. 1909-1920
Clovis Furniture Center
City Print, Ca. 1919-1929
Ca. 1930-1940
D N Croft Building, ca. 1910
Metal Shed, Modern, ca. 2013
Carnine-Wiseman Post 3280, ca. 1970-1980
H.D. Reeves Grocery, Ca. 1909-1912
Grocery, Ca. 1909-1912, ca. 1950 (207)
Ca. 1950, later remodel
Commercial
NC
Commercial
Commercial
C
C, Photo 7
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
Shed
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
C
C
C
C
NC
NC
C, Photo 8
NC
NC
Ca. 1960 (remodel)
Landmark Title, ca. 1980 (remodel)
Ca. 1960 (remodel)
Ca. 1938-1940
Ca. 1929
Clovis Post Office, 1931
Unique Image, Ca. 1950-1959
Ca. 1970-1980
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
Beaux Arts
Commercial
C
NC
C
C
C
C (NR)
C
NC
J.M. Radford Grocer Co., ca. 1920-1929
Durand’s Market, Ca. 1920-1929
Ca. 1940
Ca. 1940
The Prescription Shop, Ca. 1950-1960
(remodel)
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
C, Photo 4
C, Photo 4
C
C
NC
Post-1940
Ca. 1950
Garage, ca. 1940-1950
Hales Apartment Building, ca. 1940
C
C
C
C
House, Ca. 1929, ca. 1950
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
Streamline
Moderne
Vernacular
Wholey Cow Deli, ca. 1957
Gas Station, ca. 1930s
Sonic, ca. 1990-2000
Commercial
Tudor Revival
Commercial
C
NC
NC
Dan Buzzard Law Library, ca. 1940s
Commercial
C
C
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Figure 1: Clovis Original Town Site Plat, Ca. 1907
A larger version of the plat map is located in the files at HPD.
Please note that the original is in fair condition, having been taped together in two sections.
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STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
Railroad officials filed the Clovis town site plat on April 13, 1907 – one year after it was selected as
the eastern division point for the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe (AT&SF) Railroad. With platting,
officials also donated land for churches and a public school. Three years later, Clovis became the
seat of government of recently formed Curry County, which was parceled out of adjoining Quay
and Roosevelt counties. The substantial railroad resources allowed Clovis to become a ranching
and farming stronghold in eastern New Mexico. Today, 75 to 100 trains still pass through Clovis
every day.
The Clovis Railroad and Commercial Historic District encompasses a variety of resource types,
including historic railroad-related buildings such as the depot, grocer warehouses, grain elevators,
hotels, service stations, theaters, and various one-and-two story commercial buildings. The district
is eligible for listing at the local level of significance under Criterion A for Community Development
and Planning as a major four-way division point on the AT&SF railway, as well as Criterion C for a
commercial and railroad district that encompasses a range of architectural styles and property
types – from the Greek Revival First Methodist Church (SR#1379, NRHP # 406658) to the intact
Decorative Brick Commercial style Mandell’s Department Store to the Mission Revival Gran
Quivira (or Harvey House) to the Art Deco style Curry County Courthouse (SR#1274, NRHP #
406435). Clovis retains a fine collection of grain elevators and agricultural-related warehouses, a
relatively rare resource type in such a concentration. The proposed district likely includes the
greatest number of grain elevators or silos in New Mexico.
The period of significance begins in 1907 when the town was first platted. It ends in 1968, in order
to capture several important architect-designed Modernist buildings that are included within the
district boundary.
EARLY CULTURAL OCCUPATIONS
Located in the ancient lakebeds between Clovis and Portales in an area that became known as
the Blackwater Draw, monumental archeological discoveries were made in the early 1930s,
including artifacts found in close proximity to mammoth remains. At the early stages of
excavation, grooved points, which became known as the Clovis Fluted, as well as a
fragmentary point or knife, a scarper, and two important pieces of polished bone were found in
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situ. The major Blackwater Draw sites, including Anderson Basin #1 and #2 and the Clovis
site (or Blackwater Draw Locality No. 1) occur over a twelve-mile stretch where the draw divides
the western Muleshoe sand dunes; these sites, National Historic Landmarks, have yielded a
wealth of information about early human occupation on the High Plains.11
Among the discoveries on the Llano Estacado, archeologists have found an oven dating to the
middle Archaic Period at the Lubbock Lake site. The Blackwater Locality No. 1 reveals one of
the best sequences of Paleoindian to Archaic deposits. Mammoth and bison bones, as well as
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11
H.M. Wormington, Ancient Man in North America, (Denver, CO: Denver Museum of Natural History, 1964), 47-48.
Paul H. Carlson, Deep Time and the Texas High Plains, (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2005), 41.
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other artifacts from the sequencing are on display at the Blackwater Draw Museum near the
site, roughly halfway between Clovis and Portales. Clovis age and Archaic age wells were also
excavated at the site.12
CLOVIS AS RAILROAD DIVISION POINT
Lucky for Clovis, the railroad’s first location choice of Melrose (formerly Brownhorn) offered a
limited, mineral-rich water supply and elevated land prices, so railroad officials soon began
looking for alternatives for the division point.13 After establishing a viable water supply on 400
hundred acres they had acquired, the railroad demolished the existing roadbed of the Pecos
Valley Line from Texico to Portales and christened Clovis the southeastern division point in
1906.14 Known as the Belen Cutoff, the new route traversed 268 miles from Texico to Rio
Puerco, providing a faster and safer route west, while avoiding the mountainous terrain of
northern New Mexico.15 A large area with a substantial roundhouse and repair shops for
maintaining the steam locomotives was soon established in Clovis; unfortunately, these
structures are no longer extant. The commercial downtown developed immediately north of the
railroad area, which was located south of Hagerman Avenue (now First Street).
First known as Riley Switch, the town became known as Clovis by 1907. Two stories surround
the naming of Clovis. Some attribute the name to the wife and daughter of Edward Payson
Ripley, the president of the AT&SF, who were fascinated with Clovis – the first Christian king of
France. Others attribute the naming to a daughter of James Dunn, the railroad’s chief
engineer.16 Nonetheless, Clovis soon became a burgeoning town with the first business – the
real estate office of Clayton Reed and C.V. Steed – opening in 1907. Several prominent brick
buildings that are still extant were constructed the following year, including the Leepy Building at
312 and the E.H. Griffith Building at 314 North Main Street. Clovis was officially incorporated in
1909. Agriculture and ranching became an important part of Clovis’s early economy, utilizing
the railroad to ship goods and livestock to near and distant markets.
The historic Sanborn maps show the evolution of Clovis’s commercial and nearby residential
districts. The areas adjacent to the railroad tracks and Main Street, running north-south, were
the earliest streets to develop commercially.
NOTABLE BUSINESSES: GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF COMMERCIAL DOWNTOWN
According to the Sanborn maps, the H.D. Reeves Grocery building at 201 West Grand Avenue,
with its crowning modillion cornice, was constructed between 1909 and 1912. By the 1930s, this
intersection of Grand Avenue and Mitchell Street included the Avalon Hotel, located across the
street at 200 West Grand. The 1939 City Directory reveals that Hiram D. and Alice I. Reeves,
who owned the grocery, lived only a couple of blocks north at 510 North Mitchell Street.
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See www.enmu.edu/services/museums/blackwater-draw/locality.shtml
Dixie Boyle, A Brief History of Railroad Towns along the Belen Cutoff, 27-29.
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Boyle, 27-29. AT & SF purchased 400 acres of land for $12,000.
15
Stevens, Clovis, New Mexico: The First 100 Years, 1.
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Robert Julyan, The Place Names of New Mexico, (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 1998), 88-89.
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Two other significant wholesale grocery companies built important structures within the next
decade or so. Built between 1919 and 1929, the J.M. Radford Grocer Company was located at
111-113 East Fifth Street. Notations on the 1929 Sanborn map identify the occupant and
describe pilastered walls, deck, and wood trusses. By 1948, the city directory shows Dunn
Brothers Motor Company at 111-113 East First Street. In 1955, the directory lists Ben’s Battery
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Shop and Van & Frost Garage at 113 East First Street. Immediately adjacent at 119 East 5
Street, Durand’s Market in Welch’s Grocery Building was advertised as “The Most Sanitary
Market in Clovis” with L.E. Durand as the proprietor.17
Further south adjacent to the railroad, businesses such as Clovis Mill and Elevator Company
(ca. 1916) and Waples-Platter Company (ca. 1920), another grocer’s warehouse managed by
local rancher Robert E. Lee, were established in the early twentieth century.18 Railroad spurs
leading to the backs of each building aided in easy loading of produce, flour, and grain. In 1932,
the Clovis Mill used the tagline: “Use Golden West and Sunlight Flour, Satisfaction Guaranteed”
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and “We Want Your Grain.” Both businesses functioned in these locations until the 1950s,
although the mill and elevator was then known as the Farmers Co-op Flour Mill.20 By the mid1950s, Waples-Platter Company moved to 1440 North Main Street. Another early grain supplier,
Stone Grain & Elevator Company, was located at 421 East First Street by the late 1930s.
In the 1920s, Clovis added the handsome Decorative Brick Commercial-style Mandell’s
Department Store to Main Street. According to the 1932 City Directory, Albert Vohs served as
manager. The 1929 Sanborn Map shows a dance hall on the second floor of the building, and
by the late 1930s, the directories show L.C. Buchanan, an oculist, located in 318 ½, likely
upstairs. Mandell’s was advertised as “New Mexico’s Largest Independent Department Store”
that specialized in Florsheim shoes, Manhattan shirts, Stetson hats, Arrow shirts, Dobbs hats,
and Interwoven socks. By 1949, the directory shows Dunlap’s Department Store at 318 Main
and May Brothers Jewelry Company at 320.21 By the mid-1960s, Walgreen Drug is at 318 and
Shaw’s Jewelry is at 320.
By 1932, the Clovis City Directory listed one architect, twelve barber shops, four bakeries,
eighteen cafes, ten department stores, sixteen filling stations, twenty-four groceries/markets, five
mills, three theaters, and ten hotels.22 The number of hotels, theaters, cafes, and filling stations
acknowledges the growth of the community due to railroad and later automobile traffic coming
through Clovis, while the number of groceries, markets, and mills reflects the area’s agricultural
roots.
Billed as the “Skyscraper of the Plains,” the nine-story Art Deco-style Hotel Clovis (SR#1109,
NRHP # 395278) afforded travelers fashionable accommodations, just two blocks north of the
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railroad depot (Figure 2). Surprisingly this grand hotel opened in 1931, as people of the High
Plains struggled through the turbulent years of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. At
opening, Manager Ray Cantrell promoted the hotel as having “luxuriously comfortable beds, in
pleasant rooms, where…guests may enjoy that complete rest so essential to the beginning of
another day with great advantage of fully renewed vigor.”23 The hotel, costing $300,000 to
construct, included a drugstore, a barbershop, a beauty parlor, a tailor, and a coffee shop at
various times in its history. One of the period advertisements reads: “Our coffee shop serves the
CHOICEST FOODS on Attractive Table D’Hote Menus at Most Modern Prices.”24
Residents and visitors alike spent evenings dancing in the commodious assembly room, where
big bands played for decades. A Clovis Evening News-Journal article described the scene: “The
west side of the room is flanked by French doors, opening to a spacious balcony overlooking Main
Street.”25 One can imagine well-dressed men and women spilling out onto the balcony with music
and lights in the background, enlivening the evening street. The walls of the room were painted a
light color, the ceiling stained a redwood color, and the details were trimmed in typical
Southwestern colors of turquoise and terracotta. Clovis’s Centennial book noted: “the city’s
economic (and likely social) life seemed to revolve around Hotel Clovis for the next three
decades.”26 The hotel hosted thousands of train passengers over the years, as well as serving as
accommodations for railway workers and the military.
By 1932, Clovis boasted three downtown movie theaters – the Mesa at 206 North Main, the
Mainstreet at 306 North Main, and the Lyceum at 411 North Main, all within walking distance of
the Hotel Clovis. In 1932, the Lyceum (SR#1897, NRHP # 355918) ran the tagline of “Take short
vacations often at the Lyceum.”27 The State Theater (SR#1899, NRHP # 355920) at 504 North
Main, was constructed in 1939 and included the State Café at 504 ½. One might ask why so
many theaters were located within blocks of each other, but each seemed to cater to a different
audience. The 1946 City Directory advertises the theaters as: the State – the “Pick of the
Pictures;” the Lyceum as “The Family Theatre;” and, the Mesa as the “Bargain Theatre.” The
Mesa included the Carmel Crisp Shop and the Mesa Barber Shop at various times, and the
Grant’s Lyceum Barber Shop at 413 North Main employed the theater’s name in the 1950s.
Apparently, singer-song writer Buddy Holly had a hand in retrofitting the interior of the Mesa with a
1950s aesthetic; the theater retains its incredible acoustics today.
Cafés and restaurants also became mainstays in the early commercial fabric. Sutton’s Bakery
(formerly Ace Café), at 515 North Main Street, was a Clovis institution. As early as 1929, two
commercial buildings were built in the middle of the 500 block on the east side of North Main
Street. The 1939 City Directory shows the Slaten Brothers Auto Supply and Service Store at
513 and the Ace Café at 515, while the 1946 City Directory indicates that a sales lot for Clovis
Motor Company stretched from 515-519 North Main Street. By 1948, the building at 515 housed
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Clovis Evening News-Journal, 29 October 1931.
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Sutton’s Bakery. Sutton’s Bakery was originally called Perfection Bakery, located at 118 East
Grand Avenue (1946 CD). The last owner operated Sutton’s Bakery for forty-six years,
purchasing it from Erby and Goldie Sutton.
There are also several notable early service stations within the district, including Wood’s
Service Station at 120 East Grand Avenue and the Walker Company Station at 220 First Street.
At least a portion of Wood’s Service Station served as the Clovis Fire Station in the early
twentieth century. By 1929, the building appears as a filling station on the Sanborn map. At that
time, both the building at 120 East Grand and the one to the north on North Pile were
associated with the automotive business. The 1932 City Directory shows Wood’s Service
Station here with W.T. Woods as manager; while the 1939 City Directory lists the building as
the Grand Avenue Service Station, and by the 1940s, the business is known as the Conoco
Super Service Station.
The buildings associated with the Walker Company on First Street are highly intact examples of
the Decorative Brick Commercial style with features including original wood and glass doors
surmounted by transoms, glass block openings, and wood roll-up service doors with lights.
Clovis also experienced growth in the mid-twentieth century with several additions of Modernist
or Functionalist buildings, including the circular Citizen’s Bank of Clovis at 421 North Pile Street
and its parabolic motor bank at the intersection of North Main and Commerce streets. Citizen’s
Bank was originally organized as Farmers State Bank of Clovis under the direction of Sid J.
Boykin and A.W. Skarda. The Citizens Bank of Clovis was incorporated in 1916 with stock of
$25,000. With current assets of $200 million, the institution has become one of the largest
independent banks of East-Central, New Mexico. Today, Kent Carruthers serves as president.
Marvin E. Knedler of Denver, Colorado served as the architect of the building on Pile Street in
the late 1960s, while Loren Mastin of Lundeen & Associates of Las Cruces designed the motor
bank in the mid-1960s. Clovis only had two banks in the early 1940s – Citizens and Clovis
National Bank.
AGRICULTURE ON THE HIGH PLAINS
Some of the first irrigation wells within the county were dug in the late 1940s, aiding farmers
and ranchers alike. Dryland farmers went from producing 15 to 20 bushels of wheat per acre to
more than 50 bushels per acre with irrigation wells.29 Curry County has 94% of irrigable land
distributed widely throughout the county, and Clovis itself boasts 81 to 90% with few restrictions
on irrigation.30
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H.E. Dregne and J.U. Anderson, Irrigable Land in Curry County, (Las Cruces, NM: Agricultural Experiment Station,
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The grain elevator plays an important role in the handling and processing of grain in the U.S.
and in Clovis, New Mexico. The majority of the state’s grain elevators are located along the
eastern border where the majority of the grain is grown.31 Curry County is the largest producer
of grain crops in the state, hence the concentration of grain elevators in Clovis. Corn, cotton,
alfalfa, and peanuts are also among the crops grown.
In the 1840s in Buffalo, New York, merchant Joseph Dart and engineer Robert Dunbar
designed the first grain elevator. The development of the grain industry began with country
elevators, which represented the point where the farmers sold the grain. Large terminal
elevators, which are mostly what is found in Clovis, were located in market centers where
buyers and sellers came together to inspect grain, establish pricing, and transfer ownership. In
the early twentieth century, improved roads, rail lines, and waterways made the distance from
farm to elevator less of a determining factor in the structure of the country elevator system.32
The proposed Clovis district encompasses three types of grain elevators, including: a small
frame or “wood-cribbed” structure with multi-storied elevator, drying bins, and storage rooms
that dates to 1916; the steel storage bin with elevator leg; and, the colossal cylindrical
reinforced concrete forms typical of the 1940s and later. The latter two types were designed to
counter the fire dangers posed by the earlier frame construction. In New Mexico, wheat was the
largest crop stored in elevators, followed closely by milo in the early 1980s. The average
capacity of upright storage was 751,000 bushels with a maximum of 3,000,000 bushels, and
sales ranged from $1.1 million to $40.5 million.33
The heyday of irrigated farming began to wane in the 1970s, when wells dried up and drilling
deeper was costly. By the late twentieth century, the depleted Ogallala Aquifer was a big
concern for farmers and residents alike. In 2006, geologists determined that the aquifer was
losing about 51 billion gallons of water a year; the aquifer’s remaining lifespan was only
estimated at 20 to 30 years. The state’s Economic Development Department reported $364.4
million in sales from farm produce and other commodities in eastern New Mexico in 2000,
clearly a large part of the economy.34
CANNON AIR FORCE BASE
Located eight miles west of Clovis, Cannon Air Force Base (CAFB) had its beginnings as a
private airport in the 1920s. In 1929, Charles Lindbergh selected the airport as a terminal on the
nation’s first commercial transcontinental plane to train service, known as Transcontinental Air
Transport (TAT). TAT’s presence in Clovis was short-lived however; a year later the location
moved to Amarillo.
31
Greg Baker, “Characteristics of New Mexico Grain Elevators, 1982,” (Las Cruces: New Mexico State University,
Agricultural Experiment Station, 1984), 1.
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L.D. Schnake, “Number and physical characteristics of grain elevators,” (Washington: Department of Agriculture,
Economics, Statistics, and Cooperatives Service, 1978), 2.
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Baker, 1-2.
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The airport continued to be privately run through the 1930s. In 1942 – one year after the U.S.
entered WWII – the facility was officially designated Clovis Army Air Base, and a long military
presence in Clovis began. The base was primarily used for training bombardment crews for B17, B-24, and B-29 aircraft. Later, crewmen were trained in photographic and weather
reconnaissance missions.
The 1940 U.S. Census marked Clovis’s population at 10,065, and by 1947, local estimates had
the population doubling, likely a result of the establishment of the base.35 However that same
year, the base was deactivated, and in 1948, the Chamber of Commerce led efforts to lobby for
reinstatement, sending three prominent community members to Washington to meet with defense
officials.
In July 1951, the base was reassigned to Tactical Air Command, and in October of that year,
the 140th Fighter-Bomber Wing arrived in Clovis. Their stint at the base was brief, and by 1953,
the 50th Fighter-North American F-86H Sabre came in. In 1957, the base was declared a
permanent facility and renamed in honor of General John K. Cannon, a prominent WWII
commander.
Threatened with closure, once again, in 2005 by the federal Base Closure and Realignment
Committee, state and federal politicians, as well as the community itself, rallied behind saving
the base. In 2006, the Department of Defense determined that the base would continue to
serve the Air Force’s 16th Special Operations Wing, where F-16 fighter jets are the preeminent
aircraft.
THE LEGACY OF THE NORMAN PETTY STUDIO
In 1950, Clovis had four theaters, six public schools, thirty-four churches, a 170-acre municipal
park, a municipal hospital, and five principal hotels. It’s at this time that events in the music
industry would put this mid-sized town in southeastern New Mexico on the map. In the late 1940s,
Norman Petty established the Seventh Street Studio (later known as the Petty Studio). In 1954,
the Norman Petty Trio, comprised of Norman on organ, his wife Violet (Vi) Brady Petty on
piano, and Jack Vaughn on guitar, produced “Mood Indigo,” their first big hit.
It was the 1957 release of “Party Doll,” sung by Buddy Knox and produced by Petty, which
elevated the Petty Studio to national attention. The song hit Billboard charts and was almost
immediately covered by jazz musician Wingy Manone and blues artist Roy Brown, as well as
pop singer Steve Lawrence. It was the success of that song that began to bring in such iconic
artists as Roy Orbison and Buddy Holly and the Crickets.
After terminating a relationship with Decca Records in Nashville in January 1957, Buddy Holly
and the Crickets (his band) came to Clovis. On February 25, 1957, they recorded “That’ll Be the
Day,” a song previously recorded with Decca, at the Petty Studio. That version hit No. 1 on the
charts on September 23, 1957. Kenneth Board, co-executor of the Petty estate, said: “In 1957
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came the hits. There were 12 hits in 15 months time out of this little studio.”
recorded in Clovis that truly rocketed Buddy Holly to fame.
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It was the hits
CLOVIS TODAY
With nearly 100 trains coming through Clovis on a daily basis, the railroad continues to be one of
the largest employers. The railroad corridor along First Street anchors and compliments the
commercial downtown and lends an industrial feel to the district. Towering grain elevators and
grocer warehouses accessed by railroad spurs, as well as three significant railroad buildings
provide tangible evidence that speaks to the rich history of Clovis and its significance as a division
point in New Mexico. With anchor buildings such as the Art Deco-style Curry County Courthouse
and Hotel Clovis, the Decorative Brick Commercial style Mandell’s Department Store, and the
Modernist Citizens Bank of Clovis, the commercial downtown evinces the growth and
development of Clovis from the early twentieth century through the 1960s. With 65% of the
resources contributing to the historic character and streetscape of downtown, the Clovis Railroad
and Commercial Historic District is worthy of listing in the State Register of Cultural Properties.
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Bibliographical References
Baker, Greg, “Characteristics of New Mexico Grain Elevators, 1982,” Las Cruces: New Mexico
State University, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1984.
Carlson, Paul H., Deep Time and the Texas High Plains, Lubbock: Texas Tech University
Press, 2005.
Clovis Evening News Journal, Various Issues: 1931.
H.E. Dregne and J.U. Anderson, Irrigable Land in Curry County, Las Cruces, NM: Agricultural
Experiment Station, New Mexico State University, 1968.
High Plains Historical Foundation, Curry County, New Mexico. Dallas, TX: Taylor Publishing
Company, 1978.
Clovis City Directories, Various issues: 1932, 1948, 1949-1950.
Kammer, David, State and Lyceum Theaters National Register Nominations, 2006.
Ketchum, Milo, The design of walls, bins, and grain elevators, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1919.
McAlavy, Don and Harold Kilmer, High Plains History of East-Central New Mexico, High Plains
Historical Press, 1980.
Melzer, Richard, Fred Harvey Houses of the Southwest, San Francisco, CA: Arcadia Publishing,
2008.
Pounds, Robert E., Santa Fe Depots – The Western Lines, Dallas, TX: Kachina Press, 1984.
Riskin, Marci L., The Train Stops Here:
University of New Mexico Press, 2005.
New Mexico’s Railway Legacy, Albuquerque, NM:
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, 1909, 1912, 1929, 1950.
Schnake, L.D., “Number and physical characteristics of grain elevators,” Washington:
Department of Agriculture, Economics, Statistics, and Cooperatives Service, 1978.
Stanley, F. The Clovis, New Mexico Story, Pampa, Texas: Pampa Print Shop, 1966.
Stevens, David. Clovis, New Mexico: The First 100 Years. Clovis, NM: The Clovis Journal, 2007.
Stevens, David, ed. Curry County, New Mexico: 1909-2009, Clovis, NM: The Clovis Journal, 2009.
Wormington, H.M. Ancient Man in North America, Denver, CO: Denver Museum of Natural
History, 1964.
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Photographs
The following information pertains to all photographs unless otherwise noted:
Name of Property: Clovis Railroad and Commercial Historic District
Location: Clovis, Curry County, NM
Photographer: Heather Barrett
Date taken: 2012 and March 2013
Location of TIFF files: New Mexico Historic Preservation Division, Santa Fe
1906 Baldwin Steam Locomotive (1A) &
Santa Fe Depot (1)
221 W First St.
Looking north (1A) & south (1)
Photograph 1 & 1A of 19
Gran Quivira (Harvey Hotel)
113 Connelly St.
Looking east
Photograph 2 of 19
Waples-Platter Grocer Co. Warehouse
205 Curry Ave.
Looking south
Photograph 3 of 19
J.M. Radford Grocer Co. and Durand’s Market
111-119 East 5th St.
Looking southeast
Photograph 4 of 19
Walker Co. Appliance and Motor Co.
212 and 220 East 1st St.
Looking northwest
Photograph 5 of 19
Clovis Flour Mill & Grain Elevator Co.
213 East 1st St.
Looking southwest
Photograph 6 of 19
Wood’s Service Station & Old City Hall
120 E Grand Ave. & 300-310 N Pile St.
Looking northwest
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Photograph 7 of 19
H.D. Reeves Grocery
201 W Grand Ave.
Looking southwest
Photograph 8 of 19
J.M. Radford Company Warehouse
119 S Main St.
Looking southeast
Photograph 9 of 19
Hotel Clovis
201-203 North Main St.
Looking northeast
Photograph 10 of 19
Commercial Building
214 North Main St.
Looking west
Photograph 11 of 19
Streetscape, 300 Block (west side)
310 - 322 North Main St.
Looking west
Photograph 12 of 19
State Theater
504 North Main St.
Looking west
Photograph 13 of 19
Sutton’s Bakery
515 North Main St.
Looking east
Photograph 14 of 19
Bryson Furniture
516 North Main St.
Looking west
Photograph 15 of 19
Dunn Brother’s Motor Co.
200 North Mitchell St.
Looking west
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Dr. Hales Office Building
600-602 North Mitchell St.
Looking northwest
Photograph 17 of 19
Citizens Bank of Clovis
421 North Pile St.
Looking southeast
Photograph 18 of 19
Montgomery Ward Co. Building (Non-Contributing)
309 North Main St.
Looking southeast
Photograph 19 of 19
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Photo 1: Santa Fe Depot, 221 W. First Street, looking south
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Photo 2: Gran Quivira (Harvey Hotel), 113 South Connelly Street, looking east
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Photo 3: Waples-Platter Grocer Co. Warehouse, 205 Curry Avenue, looking south
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Photo 4: J.M. Radford Company Building, 111-113 West 5th Street (right), and the
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Photo 5: Walker Appliance Company (right) and Walker Oil & Motor Company (left), 212220 East 1st Street, looking northwest
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Photo 6: Clovis Flour Mill & Elevator Company, 213 East 1st Street, looking southwest
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Photo 7: Wood’s Service Station at 120 East Grand Avenue (left) and Old City Hall and
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Photo 8: H.D. Reeves Grocery, 201 West Grand Avenue, looking southwest
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Photo 9: J.M. Radford Company Warehouse, 119 South Main Street, looking southeast
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Photo 10: Hotel Clovis, 201-203 North Main Street, looking northeast
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Photo 11: Commercial Building, 214 North Main Street, looking west
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Photo 12: Streetscape, (from right to left), 320-322, 318, 316-316 ½, 314-314 ½, 312-312 ½
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Photo 13: State Theater, 504 North Main Street, looking west
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Photo 15: Bryson’s Furniture, 516 North Main Street, looking west
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Photo 16: Dunn Brother’s Motor Company, 200 North Mitchell Street, looking west
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Photo 17: Dr. Hale’s Office Building, 600-602 North Mitchell Street, looking northwest
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Photo 19: Montgomery Ward Co. (Non-contributing), 309 North Main Street, looking
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