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After New Mexico was annexed in 1846, the U.S. Army built a one-story adobe-constructed hospital at the site of the hot springs, that was later converted into a hotel in 1862, called The Adobe. [ 1 ] In 1879, a group of "eastern promoters" [ 5 ] raised funds to build a second hotel, the Hot Springs Hotel on the land adjacent to The Adobe Hotel .
The Montezuma Castle is a 90,000-square-foot (8,400 m 2), 400 room Queen Anne style hotel building erected just northwest of the city of Las Vegas, New Mexico in 1886 (the site was at the time called "Las Vegas Hot Springs," but is now known as "Montezuma").
Later, the Spanish called the hot springs Ojo Caliente de Las Palomas (hot springs of the doves). [5] The first adobe bath house was built in the 1880s over what was called Geronimo's Spring. It was built for use by the cowboys of the John Cross Cattle Company. In the early 1900s, hot spring hotels began to be built in the area. [4]
The bathhouse is once again a bathhouse. It neighbors the resort's Spanish Revival Stone Lodge, which dates to 1926, and the Spanish-style Monterrey Building, which went up incrementally between ...
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The Las Vegas Hot Springs Company, controlled by the railroad, purchased the Montezuma hot springs property on August 1, 1879, and built a two-story stone bathhouse there for $17,000. [4] In February 1880, the company opened a three-story stone hotel with 75 rooms available for $4 per night.
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The hot springs were first recorded in geologic publications in 1875. [8] A bathhouse was constructed in 1860 by the Taos native, Antonio Joseph and his wife. The Mission Revival style building was built with thick adobe walls and rough-hewn viga roof beams. In 1868, the Joseph's opened the hot springs as a natural health spa.