Our Lady of Guadalupe Church and Medina Cemetery

Last updated

Kim Schools
Our Lady of Guadalupe Church and Medina Cemetery.JPG
The property in 2019
USA Colorado location map.svg
Red pog.svg
Location CO Hwy. 12, Medina Plaza, Colorado
Coordinates 37°07′45″N104°47′59″W / 37.129112°N 104.799595°W / 37.129112; -104.799595
Built1866 or 1867
NRHP reference No. 100004628 [1]
Added to NRHPNovember 15, 2019

The Our Lady of Guadalupe Church and Medina Cemetery in Las Animas County, Colorado, at Medina Plaza, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019. [1]

The church dates from 1866 or 1867 [2] and may be known more commonly as Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe. [3]

It was documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey as "Guadaloupe Mission Church", with photos taken in 1936 by photographer Frederick D. Nichols. [4] [5] It is recorded as "built 1867" and "adobe with cupola". [2]

It is located about 3 miles (4.8 km) east of the unincorporated community of Weston, Colorado. Satellite view shows what appears to be a cemetery across the road and up the hill a bit, not visible by Google Streetview. [6]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Las Animas County, Colorado</span> County in Colorado, United States

Las Animas County is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census, the population was 14,555. The county seat is Trinidad. The county takes its name from the Mexican Spanish name of the Purgatoire River, originally called El Río de las Ánimas Perdidas en el Purgatorio, which means "River of the Lost Souls in Purgatory."

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Las Animas, Colorado</span> City in Colorado, United States

Las Animas is the statutory city that is the county seat, the most populous community, and the only incorporated municipality in Bent County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 2,300 at the 2020 United States Census. Las Animas is located on the Arkansas River, just west of its confluence with the Purgatoire River, in southeast Colorado east of Pueblo, near the historic Bent's Fort.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Las Trampas, New Mexico</span> Unincorporated community in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, United States

Las Trampas or just Trampas, is an unincorporated hamlet in Taos County, New Mexico. Founded in 1751 to settle the Las Trampas Land Grant, its center retains the original early Spanish colonial defensive layout as well as the 18th-century San José de Gracia Church, one of the finest surviving examples of Spanish colonial church architecture in the United States. The village center was designated a National Historic Landmark District in 1967. The population in 2023 was 43.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Fort Lyon National Cemetery</span> Veterans cemetery in Bent County, Colorado

Fort Lyon National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located near the city of Las Animas in Bent County, Colorado. It encompasses 51.9 acres and as of 2014 had 2,556 interments. It is administered by the Fort Logan National Cemetery in Denver County, Colorado.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Catedral de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe</span> Historic cathedral in Ponce, Puerto Rico

The Catedral de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe is the cathedral for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ponce located in downtown Ponce, Puerto Rico. The cathedral lies in the middle of Ponce's town square, known as Plaza Las Delicias, located at the center of the Ponce Historic Zone. For its historic significance, the cathedral was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It is the seat of the Bishop of Ponce, currently Rubén González Medina.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Weston, Colorado</span> Census Designated Place in Colorado, United States

Weston is an unincorporated town, a post office, and a census-designated place (CDP) located in and governed by Las Animas County, Colorado, United States. The Weston post office has the ZIP Code 81091. At the United States Census 2020, the population of the Weston CDP was 53.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Purgatoire River</span> River

The Purgatoire River, also known as the Purgatory and Picketwire River, is in southeastern Colorado, United States. The river originates in the high mountains of the Culebra Range. Several tributaries merge near Weston in Las Animas County and the river flows east-northeastward 196 miles (315 km) to a confluence with the Arkansas River near Las Animas in Bent County, Colorado. The Purgatoire River drains an area of 3,449 square miles (8,930 km2), mostly in Colorado but a small percentage of the watershed is in New Mexico. The Purgatoire River watershed is lightly populated. Population has been declining since 1920 as former coal mining and agricultural communities have become ghost towns.

Hispanic and Latino Coloradans are residents of the state of Colorado who are of Hispanic or Latino ancestry. As of 2020, Hispanics and Latinos of any race made up 21% of the state's population, or 1,269,520 of the state's 5,770,545 residents.

Slob Historic District, near Christiansted, Virgin Islands, is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. The listing included nine contributing buildings, three contributing structures, and a contributing site on 9 acres (3.6 ha).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Clarkston Tithing Granary</span> United States historic place

The Clarkston Tithing Granary, at 10212 N. 8700 West in Clarkston, Utah was built in 1905 to house in kind tithing donations by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">French Gulch Historic District</span> Historic district in California, United States

The French Gulch Historic District, in French Gulch, California in northern California, is a historic district which was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The listing included nine contributing buildings and two contributing sites on 180 acres (0.73 km2).

The Dove Creek Baptist Church, in Elbert County, Georgia, was built in 1880. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Earl School</span> United States historic place

The Earl School, near Earl, Colorado in Las Animas County, Colorado, was built in 1909. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. It is a rare example of a surviving building associated with rural black Americans in Colorado.

References

  1. 1 2 "Weekly list". National Park Service. November 15, 2019. Retrieved November 16, 2019.
  2. 1 2 https://cdn.loc.gov/master/pnp/habshaer/co/co0000/co0027/supp/co0027supp.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
  3. "Las Animas County Colorado - las Animas Churches".
  4. "Guadaloupe Mission Church, Medina Plaza, Weston, Las Animas County, CO". Historic American Buildings Survey . Retrieved November 16, 2019. and subpage
  5. "Guadaloupe Mission Church, Medina Plaza, Weston, las Animas County, CO". Library of Congress .
  6. Google maps, Google satellite view and Google Streetview, accessed November 2019.