NAN Ranch

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NAN Ranch
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Nearest city Dwyer, New Mexico
Coordinates 32°39′16″N107°50′59″W / 32.65444°N 107.84972°W / 32.65444; -107.84972 Coordinates: 32°39′16″N107°50′59″W / 32.65444°N 107.84972°W / 32.65444; -107.84972
Area18 acres (7.3 ha)
ArchitectHenry C. Trost, Trost & Trost
Architectural style Spanish Colonial Revival
MPS Mimbres Valley MRA
NRHP reference # 88000509 [1]
NMSRCP # 1431
Significant dates
Added to NRHPMay 16, 1988
Designated NMSRCPMarch 4, 1988

NAN Ranch, also known as Y Bar NAN Ranch, [2] is a ranch in Faywood, New Mexico, that was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. [3] [lower-alpha 1] The property was developed as a ranch beginning in the late-1860s by John Brockman, who grew corn, alfalfa, and several types of fruit and bred cattle. Cattleman John T. McElroy purchased the ranch in 1927 and hired Trost & Trost to renovate and expand the ranch compound to become the NAN Ranch headquarters. The project included a new house, extensive landscaping, swimming pool, a slaughterhouse, powerhouse, and other residential and ranch buildings. It is historically significant due to its architecture and its role as a major 19th century ranch.

Faywood, New Mexico Census-designated place in New Mexico, United States

Faywood is a census-designated place in Grant County, New Mexico, United States. Its population was 33 as of the 2010 census. Faywood has a post office with ZIP code 88034. It is located 3 miles (4.8 km) north of US 180 on NM 61.

National Register of Historic Places Federal list of historic sites in the United States

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Trost & Trost American architect, American artist

Trost & Trost Architects & Engineers, often known as Trost & Trost, was an architecture firm based in El Paso, Texas. The firm's chief designer was Henry Charles Trost, who was born in Toledo, Ohio, in 1860. Trost moved from Chicago to Tucson, Arizona in 1899 and to El Paso in 1903. He partnered with Robert Rust to form Trost & Rust. Rust died in 1905 and later that year Trost formed the firm of Trost & Trost with his twin brother Gustavus Adolphus Trost, also an architect, who had joined the firm as a structural engineer. Between 1903 and Henry Trost's death on September 19, 1933, the firm designed hundreds of buildings in the El Paso area and in other Southwestern cities, including Albuquerque, Phoenix, Tucson, and San Angelo.

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Geography

NAN Ranch is located along the Mimbres River, [5] less than .5 miles (0.80 km) east of NM 61 and 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Dwyer, New Mexico. [5]

Mimbres River river in the United States of America

The Mimbres is a 91-mile-long (146 km) river in southwestern New Mexico. It forms from snow pack and runoff on the south-western slopes of the Black Range at 33°06′58″N107°51′04″W in Grant County. It flows southward into a small endorheic basin east of Deming, New Mexico in Luna County. The uplands watershed are administered by the US Forest Service, while the land in the Mimbres Valley is mostly privately owned. The upper reaches of the river are perennial. The river flows south from the Black Range and the surface flow of the river dissipates in the desert north of Deming, but the river bed and storm drainage continue eastward, any permanent flow remaining underground. The Mimbres River Basin has an area of about 13,000 km² (5,140 mi²) and extends slightly into northern Chihuahua.

State Road 61 (NM 61) is a state highway in the US state of New Mexico. Its total length is approximately 25 miles (40 km). NM 61's southern terminus is at U.S. Route 180 (US 180), and the northern terminus is at NM 152.

History

The property, developed in the late-1860s by John Brockman [lower-alpha 2] represents 19th century agricultural enterprise and New Mexican architecture in the Mimbres Valley. [5] By 1869, he had cultivated 1,000 acres, operated the first flour mill in the area, and had more than 3,000 head of cattle. [5] [7] He patented his homestead claim in 1881. Archaeologist Adolph Bandelier called the homestead a "plazita" following his visit in 1883. Considered a "model ranch" in the Silver City Enterprise, Brockman produced corn, alfalfa, cherries, peaches, pears, grapes, and apples. [5] He was the only supplier of hay to Fort Bayard and Fort Cummings. [7] The Clifton Clarion said in 1886 that he had the best all-purpose ranches in the state of New Mexico. Besides his agricultural pursuits, Brockman bred black and Shorthorn cattle. [10]

Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier American archaeologist

Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier was a Swiss-born American archaeologist who particularly explored the indigenous cultures of the American Southwest, Mexico, and South America. He immigrated to the United States with his family as a youth and made his life there, abandoning the family business to study in the new fields of archeology and ethnology.

Fort Bayard Historic District United States historic place

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Fort Cummings army post in New Mexico

Fort Cummings is a former U. S. Army post located near Cooke's Springs, in Luna County, New Mexico. It is located 20 miles northeast of Deming, New Mexico.

Brockman sold, what was considered "one of the three principal places on the Mimbres", in 1901 to the NAN Ranch and Cattle Company, which owned property just north of Brockman's land in Gallinas Canyon. NAN Ranch, which began developing its ranch in the 1880s, then moved its headquarters to the Brockman homestead. John T. McElroy, a cattleman from El Paso, Texas, bought the ranch in 1927. [5] The El Paso-based architectural firm Trost & Trost was hired by McElroy and his wife to complete a US $300,000 ($4,327,011 today) project to renovate and expand the complex to include a new house, swimming pool, large courtyard and landscaping. The house alone cost $100,000 ($1,442,337 today). The following year sixteen additional residential and ranch buildings were constructed, including a power plant and slaughter house. It became "the best country place" built in New Mexico in the 1920s according to Baker Morrow, the landscape architect who consulted for the New Mexico Historic Preservation Division. In 1945 the ranch, that was then 100,000 acres, was sold. In 1988, when it was registered as a historic place, it was owned by W. B. Hinton. [5] By that time the servants quarters building was used for archaeological teams from Texas A&M University who excavated the property's NAN Ranch Ruin. [5] Archaeologist Harry J. Shafer at the university began working on the excavation of the ruins after having been contacted by Margaret Hinton, who him told of the ruins found on the ranch and the connection to the nearby Swarts Ruin of the Mimbres culture. [11]

El Paso, Texas City in Texas, United States

El Paso is a city and the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States, in the far western part of the state. The 2018 population estimate for the city from the U.S. Census was 682,669, making it the 22nd largest city in the United States. Its metropolitan statistical area (MSA) covers all of El Paso and Hudspeth counties in Texas, and has a population of 840,758.

The New Mexico Historic Preservation Division is a division of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs.

Texas A&M University Public research university in College Station, Texas, United States

Texas A&M University is a public research university founded in 1876 and located in College Station, Texas. In 1948, Texas A&M University became the founding member of the Texas A&M University System. As of 2017, Texas A&M's student body is the largest in Texas and the second largest in the United States. Texas A&M's designation as a land, sea, and space grant institution–the only university in Texas to hold all three designations–reflects a range of research with ongoing projects funded by organizations such as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Office of Naval Research. In 2001, Texas A&M was inducted as a member of the Association of American Universities. The school's students, alumni—over 450,000 strong—and sports teams are known as Aggies. The Texas A&M Aggies athletes compete in 18 varsity sports as a member of the Southeastern Conference.

It was listed on the National Register as part of a 1988 study of historic resources in the Mimbres Valley of Grant County. [12]

Grant County, New Mexico County in the United States

Grant County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2010 census, the population was 29,514. Its county seat is Silver City. The county was founded in 1868 and named for Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States.

Description

The approximate 18 acre NAN Ranch headquarters contains historic residential, farm, blacksmith, grain silos, and other buildings. [5] The Brockman homestead was built about 1880. [5] [lower-alpha 3] The Spanish Colonial Revival McElroy House (1928) has a red clay tile gable roof, stuccoed walls, cast Solomonic columns, exposed wood and cast stone details, and wrought iron fixtures. It has a central octagonal sun room and a sleeping porch. A swimming pool, red clay tile deck, high-walled courtyard, and wooden arbor are near the two main residences. The property is landscaped with cypress, cottonwood, mulberry, and hollyhock trees. Roses, hollyhocks, iris, English Ivy, and privet hedges also feature in the landscaping. [5]

The Spanish Colonial Revival Style is an architectural stylistic movement arising in the early 20th century based on the Spanish Colonial architecture of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.

Solomonic column

The Solomonic column, also called Barley-sugar column, is a helical column, characterized by a spiraling twisting shaft like a corkscrew. It is not associated with a specific classical order, although most examples have Corinthian or Composite capitals. But it may be crowned with any design, for example, making a Roman Doric solomonic or Ionic solomonic column.

Other historic residences include houses for the foreman, gardener, servants and cowboys. The foreman's house is a bungalow and a bunkhouse was built for cowboys. Other buildings include a slaughter house, blacksmith shop and power plant, chicken house, smoke house, laundry, garages, and barns. Irrigation ditches built by John Brockman were modified to concrete irrigation gutters. [5]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Some sources list the ranch being in Dwyer, but the town no longer exists. The post office in Dwyer was moved northeast from Faywood is named the Faywood Post Office. [4]
  2. ↑ The National Register of Historic Places nomination form states that Brockman was a customs agent at Mowry City, New Mexico, [5] however Mowry City was a short-lived town founded upon a scam. [6] A biography of his life states that Brockman served for the Union during the Civil War and afterwards moved west. He panned for gold before buying the ranch. [7] He went on to become a successful businessman, Silver City banker, and millionaire. By 1902, he lived in Los Angeles, California and was the owner of the Pearce, Arizona Commonwealth mine. [8] [9]
  3. ↑ The nomination form provides a description of the Brockman house, but per the owner that information is incorrect.

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References

  1. ↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. 2010-07-09.
  2. ↑ Harry J. Shafer (2003). Mimbres Archaeology at the NAN Ranch Ruin. UNM Press. p. xii. ISBN   978-0-8263-2204-3.
  3. ↑ "Grant County, New Mexico". National Register of Historic Places. Retrieved December 4, 2014.
  4. ↑ Robert Hixson Julyan (1 January 1996). The Place Names of New Mexico. UNM Press. p. 130. ISBN   978-0-8263-1689-9.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 "NAN Ranch Nomination Form". National Register of Historic Places. Retrieved December 4, 2014.
  6. ↑ Loreta Janeta Velazquez (1894). "The Valley of the Rio Grande". The Story of the Civil War. H.W. Hagemann. p. 603.
  7. 1 2 3 Press Reference Library (Western edition). Notables of the West (1915). Being the Portraits and Biographies of the Progressive Men of the West. II. New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta: International News Service. p. 137.
  8. ↑ "Silver City". Albuquerque Citizen. Albuquerque, New Mexico. February 14, 1902. p. 6.
  9. ↑ Jim Hinckley; Kerrick James (1 March 2010). "Pearce, Arizona". Ghost Towns of the Southwest: Your Guide to the Historic Mining Camps and Ghost Towns of Arizona and New Mexico. MBI Publishing Company. p. 76. ISBN   978-1-61673-895-2.
  10. ↑ "Stock Notes". The Clarion Clifton. April 28, 1886. p. 1. Retrieved December 5, 2014.
  11. ↑ "The NAN Ranch Collection: The Legacy of Margaret R. Hinton". Western New Mexico University Museum. Retrieved December 5, 2014.
  12. ↑ Chris Wilson (September 10, 1988). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Historic Resources of the Mimbres Valley in Grant County". National Park Service . Retrieved January 31, 2019.
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