| Tome Jail | |
| Designated Other1: | N.M. State Register of Cultural Properties |
| Designated Other1 Date: | July 5, 1972 |
| Designated Other1 Number: | 257[1] |
| Designated Other1 Num Position: | bottom |
| Coordinates: | 34.7406°N -106.7303°W |
| Built: | 1875 |
| Added: | October 5, 1977 |
| Refnum: | 77000932 |
Tome Jail is a historic jail building in Tome, New Mexico. It is the only surviving part of the former Valencia County Courthouse, built when the county seat was moved from Belen to Tome in 1875. The courthouse was a two-story adobe building which gradually disappeared due to erosion, but the jail had more durable stone walls and remained standing. Construction of the building was probably authorized by Probate Judge Manuel A. Otero, who was the chief county official at the time and whose name appears in a bilingual inscription carved into the stone lintel.[2]
The building is 15feet wide by 25feet deep, with plastered stone walls 4feet thick. It has small windows on the south and west sides, each with a double set of bars set into a wooden frame on the inside and a sandstone frame on the outside. The interior walls and roof are of rough-cut lumber.[2]