History · Glorieta
Glorieta’s history is mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 2 old photos of Glorieta. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
2 old photos & papers
1 historic places
1 need a date
From Glorieta’s archive · credits on each photo
What stands out about Glorieta’s past Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
★ What stands out · Help out Start Glorieta’s collection The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Glorieta’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos 00s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s
1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
The story How Glorieta came to be From Wikipedia’s history of Glorieta.
Read it all → The area was the site of two battles in New Mexico history, the Capture of Santa Fe and the Battle of Glorieta Pass. The community was founded in 1879 with the arrival of the New Mexico and Southern Pacific Railroad, with a post office established in 1880.
Text from Wikipedia , licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 .
By decade Glorieta, decade by decade One decade in the archive so far: the 1920s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
1930s–1990s nothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these years Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Add from your album Then & now Stand where they stood No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Retake this view Trees at Glorieta, New Mexico Georgia O’Keeffe, 1929 Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Glorieta’s page.
Retake this view · +15 On the National Register 1 historic place in Glorieta The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
0
each building in a district counts
first listed
2012
Santa Fe Trail-Apache Canyon Bridge Site
in New Mexico
#73
by listings
All 1 listings National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Stories next door
History across the town line
Memory lane What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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What used to stand where something else is now in Glorieta? → Who remembers Glorieta in the 1950s? → A family story from old Glorieta → Does anyone have photos of Glorieta from the 1990s? →
From Wikimedia Commons (4), the Library of Congress (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1) and Wikipedia. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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