The Chaves County Courthouse, located on the 400 block of Main Street in
Roswell,
New Mexico
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, is the center of government of
Chaves County
Chaves County is a county in New Mexico, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 65,157. Its county seat is Roswell. Chaves County was named for Colonel Jose Francisco Chaves, a military leader there during the Civil War and ...
. The courthouse was built in 1911 after Roswell's citizens learned that New Mexico would become a state the next year.
Isaac Hamilton Rapp, of the Colorado firm I.H. and W.M. Rapp,
[ .] designed the courthouse in the "monumental civic" adaptation of the
Beaux-Arts style. A
cupola
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The word derives, via Ital ...
with green tiles tops the courthouse.
The courthouse was added to the
National Register of Historic Places
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on February 15, 1989.
See also
*
National Register of Historic Places listings in Chaves County, New Mexico
References
External links
Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in New Mexico
1911 establishments in New Mexico Territory
Government buildings completed in 1911
Buildings and structures in Chaves County, New Mexico
County courthouses in New Mexico
Roswell, New Mexico
National Register of Historic Places in Chaves County, New Mexico
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