| Casados House | |
| Coordinates: | 36.7389°N -106.5694°W |
| Built: | 1885 |
| Added: | April 4, 1985 |
| Area: | less than one acre |
| Mpsub: | La Tierra Amarilla MRA |
| Refnum: | 85000825 |
The Casados House, in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico near Los Ojos, New Mexico, was built in 1885. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
It is located about 100yd northwest of the junction of U.S. Route 84 and New Mexico State Road 95.
It is a two-story "mansion" built with 20inches adobe walls upon a stone rubble foundation.
"7. Description; Stone rubble foundation, stucco and mudplaster over 20" adobe walls, end boards-front; asphaltshingles over hipped roof; small enclosed overhang; 1/6, 2/2double hung windows with segmental arched molding pediments;single door with transom; boxed chamfered porch posts withspindle railings and stick/cut-out frieze. Front and sidefacades symmetrical. Center hall flanked by load bearingadobe walls and two pairs of rooms on both floorsBarn, ca. 50' SW: hewn horizontal log with alternatinghalf dovetail joint (1st floor), plank with corrugated metalroof (2nd floor), small railroad tie addition.Located just above the drop-off from the first plateau tothe river, in the vicinity of mobile homes, recent houses anda scattering of historic buildings (see #52)."
"8. Significance; This is the best preserved of the two-storymansions remaining in the survey area; another stands in ruins(ill. 55), two more in Tierra Amarilla outside the surveyarea. Built in the mid-1880s by Hispanic merchants who hadprospered with the coming of the railroad, these represent anadoption of Anglo-American tastes and house design on the mostrefined and grand scale affordable. This house, like theothers, has an overriding symmetry of massing, full frontporch, centered entrance and center hall plan with fourmatching square rooms on each floor. The doors, windows andbalustrades are stock elements shipped in over the railroad.The segmental molding window pediments, the stick and cut-outfriezes, the boxed chamfered posts and the concentration ofthose posts to mark the centered entrance show the hand of alocal builder."
A barn, also built around 1885, is a second contributing building in the listing, and is "a goodexample of the typical combination of Hispanic (hewn logs) with Anglo (plank and corrugated roofing) elements in local barns."[1]