Roy T. Herman's Garage and Service Station | |
 Herman's Station in 2017 | |
  Roy T. Herman's Garage and Service Station  Roy T. Herman's Garage and Service Station | |
| Location | NM 122, 150 yds. W of I-40 exit, Thoreau, New Mexico |
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| Coordinates | 35°23′50″N108°13′27″W / 35.39722°N 108.22417°W Coordinates: 35°23′50″N108°13′27″W / 35.39722°N 108.22417°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1935 |
| MPS | Route 66 through New Mexico MPS |
| NRHP reference # | 93001212 [1] |
| NMSRCP # | 1579 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | November 22, 1993 |
| Designated NMSRCP | September 17, 1993 |
Roy T. Herman's Garage and Service Station, located in Thoreau, New Mexico on the former U.S. Route 66, what is now New Mexico State Road 122, about 150 yards west of an exit from Interstate 40, was built in 1935. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. [1]
Thoreau is a census-designated place (CDP) in McKinley County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 1,863 at the 2000 census. It is majority Native American, primarily of the Navajo Nation, as this community is located within its boundaries.
U.S. Route 66 or U.S. Highway 66, also known as the Will Rogers Highway, the Main Street of America or the Mother Road, was one of the original highways in the U.S. Highway System. US 66 was established on November 11, 1926, with road signs erected the following year. The highway, which became one of the most famous roads in the United States, originally ran from Chicago, Illinois, through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona before ending in Santa Monica in Los Angeles County, California, covering a total of 2,448 miles (3,940 km). It was recognized in popular culture by both the hit song "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66" and the Route 66 television series, which aired on CBS from 1960 to 1964. In John Steinbeck's classic American novel, The Grapes of Wrath (1939), the road "Highway 66" symbolized escape and loss.
State Road 122 (NM 122) is a 38.740-mile-long (62.346 km) state highway in the US state of New Mexico. NM 122's western terminus is at Interstate 40 (I-40) west of Thoreau, and the eastern terminus is at I-40 in Grants.
It was built as a Standard Oil Company station on Route 66 in Grants, New Mexico in 1935. It was moved to Thoreau in 1937, where it was the first business on a new stretch of new alignment of the highway, and it served as a filling station until 1963, then moved 200 yards along the highway to serve as a car repair garage. [2]
Grants is a city in Cibola County, New Mexico, United States. It is located about 78 miles (126 km) west of Albuquerque. The population was 9,182 at the 2010 Census. It is the county seat of Cibola County.
A filling station is a facility that sells fuel and engine lubricants for motor vehicles. The most common fuels sold in the 2010s are gasoline and diesel fuel. A filling station that sells only electric energy is also known as a charging station, while a typical filling station can also be known as a fueling or gas station, gasbar (Canada), gasoline stand or SS (Japan), petrol pump or petrol bunk, petrol garage, petrol station, service station, a services, or servo (Australia), or fuel station (Israel).
