Los Tomases Chapel
National Register of Historic Places

Los Tomases Chapel

Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico
Listed
February 9, 1984
Type
Building
Period
Civil War
Ref No.
84002876

About this property

Los Tomases Chapel is a historic building in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The chapel was built in the 1920s to serve the late-19th-century North Valley neighborhood of Los Tomases, and remained in occasional use in the 1980s. It was listed on the New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties in 1983 and the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The chapel is a one-story adobe building in the New Mexico vernacular style. It is approximately rectangular in plan with a polygonal apse. The building has a corrugated metal gable roof with exposed rafters and a three-sided hipped section at the rear. Both the east and west sides have three arched, wood-framed 1-over-1 sash windows, and the front entrance has wooden double doors with a transom.

Location

3101 Los Tomases, NW
Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico
35.11566, -106.64922

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Sources

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When was Los Tomases Chapel listed on the National Register?

Los Tomases Chapel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 9, 1984.

What type of historic resource is Los Tomases Chapel?

Los Tomases Chapel is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

What is the period of significance for Los Tomases Chapel?

The period of significance for Los Tomases Chapel is recorded as the civil_war era.

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