This house is on the grounds of the old La Nora Courts, now apartments, along Route 66 in Tucumcari. The house was owned and occupied by the motel's owners, way back when. I'd put the construction date at circa 1940. Most, if not all, of the motel is intact, but the old Conoco station, which sat out front, has been replaced by a laundromat.
The motel was named after my great aunt, Nora, who opened it with her husband Fred, after the bottom fell out of ranching during the Great Depression or thereabouts. Previously, he had a homestead north of town, next to his father's place. They both homesteaded there around 1906.
I never met them, and the only thing I remember my mom saying about the place was, "The customers would steal anything that wasn't nailed down. When TV became popular, they bought TV's for each room, and the next day, they were all gone."
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