Tularosa Hotel-
Driving through this small town north of Alamogordo, I stumbled across what was the Tularosa Hotel. The building presently looked like someone’s art studio when I passed through town. The structure looked to be in pretty good shape and in recent years received a fresh coat of paint.
Unfortunately, I was unable to find anything in the archive or the various hotel reference books on a hotel in Tularosa New Mexico.
Driving from Las Cruces to Socorro, New Mexico I got off the Interstate to enjoy the less frantic back roads and enjoy the scenery. I stopped in Hatch, a small farming town best known for the Green Chili Festival. I came across an old building that looked like it was once a hotel. It had the markings of an early day hotel; railroad tracks ran behind the building, and the structure is located on one of the more travelled streets in town.
Returning to the archive I looked up the Sanborn maps for Hatch in 1930. They show that the structure was indeed a hotel but provide no name. The maps also show a more substantial hotel listed the Jonada Hotel made of adobe. Unfortunately, that hotel was torn down at some point and a modern bank sits on that site.
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