Revuelto Schoolhouse

Says Carol Nash, who provided the photo, "I believe this was the old school building and post office where my grandmother Arba F. White taught for a few years in the early 1920’s. She also rode a horse for about 8 miles from San Jon to bring the mail from Revuelto to San Jon in 1906."  

Old House 168

I think the Ozymandias family lived there - real uppity. 

Old House 134

Yeso, New Mexico

Causey School

The school in Causey, New Mexico, built by the WPA, back when
the homesteads were smaller and the families larger, sits abandoned.

Fireplace

Fort Union, New Mexico

When is a house no longer a house?

Yeso, New Mexico

For all practical purposes, a house is no longer a house when it becomes uninhabitable. But for the purposes of history, the answer may be never. When the visible ruins disappear the archeologists step in with shovels, ground penetrating radar, and the such. In that spirit, I'll call this Old House 124. Perhaps, in the future, it will lead someone to where it once stood.

Abo Ruins

 

 

The ruins at Abo are part of three sites comprising Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument. It's a few miles west of Mountainair, New Mexico. The site is not only a beautiful pile, but it always seems quiet there, lending itself to wayward ruminations.

Wagons at Fort Union

Rock Island Railroad viewed from Route 66

A defunct railway next to an abandoned highway

Rock Island Landscape

Bard, New Mexico

Old Testament Gas Station

Newkirk, New Mexico

This little ruin reminds me of that old Joke:
Q. Did you know there are motorcycles in the Bible?
A. Yes, "The roar of David's Triumph was heard throughout the land."

Abandoned Tourist Court: Newkirk, NM

Post Office: Glenrio, NM

Old House 75

This one overlooks the old Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railroad right-of-way in Endee, NM

Abandoned Gas Stations, I-40, Glenrio, New Mexico

Route 66 and the other US Routes around the country are noted for vintage roadside architecture and abandoned buildings, but now the interstates are getting old enough to produce their own roadside archeology.
These abandoned service stations are not near as charming as those a few hundred yards away in Glenrio, on Route 66, in fact, they seem a little stark. Route 66 is about nostalgia for a time many of us never knew, interstates are of our own era, which will also end one day.

Old House 72

Wilkerson's, Newkirk, NM

Old House 56

The Tolar Express

I posted about the explosion at Tolar, back in '44, but just the story and the historical marker, which is a couple of miles from the actual event. This time we took a look at the remains of the town itself. There isn't much left, according to the New Mexico Historical Encyclopedia, "... every building in Tolar was damaged by shrapnel, and several of them were destroyed completely." Like so many little towns in the region, it was already obsolete and, I imagine, most of the residents took their settlements and beat a path to greener pastures.

Old House 48

 

Quay Valley, NM