National Register of Historic Places

Sewalt, Mathew Elmore, House

Lovington, Lea County, New Mexico
Listed
July 18, 2006
Type
Building
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
06000634

About this property

The Mathew Elmore Sewalt House, on E. Jefferson Avenue in Lovington, New Mexico, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. It was built in two phases in 1909 and 1916 and has also been known as the Sewalt House and as the Sewalt-Waits House. It is a one-and-a-half-story adobe house with concrete stucco. It was started by Ham Bishop as an adobe pyramidal roof house. It was bought by "up-and-coming rancher" Mathew Sewalt in 1916, and he expanded it. It has Craftsman details including exposed rafter ends and a low shed-roof dormer. Unfortunately Sewalt died young, in the 1918 influenza epidemic, but he had contributed "much to Lovington's improvement, including organizing corporations that founded the town's first bank and financed its first modem hotel." The house is significant as one of the better examples of a town home in Lovington "and reflects the shortlived prosperity of the town and the rancher who owned it."

Location

121 E. Jefferson Ave.
Lovington, Lea County, New Mexico
32.95343, -103.34841

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Sources

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Nearby Historic Sites

Lea Theater
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0.3 mi
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When was Sewalt, Mathew Elmore, House listed on the National Register?

Sewalt, Mathew Elmore, House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 18, 2006.

What type of historic resource is Sewalt, Mathew Elmore, House?

Sewalt, Mathew Elmore, House is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

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The period of significance for Sewalt, Mathew Elmore, House is recorded as the industrial era.

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