D.H. Sutherland House

	D. H. Sutherland House
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Main St., La Luz, New Mexico
Coordinates	32°58′40″N 105°56′31″W / 32.97778°N 105.94194°W
Area	1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built	c.1870, 1890
Built by	Ramirez, Mariano
Architectural style	Territorial style
MPS	La Luz Townsite MRA
NRHP reference No.	80002562
Added to NRHP	October 23, 1980

The D. H. Sutherland House, on Main St. in La Luz, New Mexico, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.^[1] It was built around 1870 by Mariano Ramirez as a three-room, flat-roof, adobe house with small, high windows for "protection from enemies". The house was modified by Dave H. Sutherland after he bought it in 1890, adding a gable roof, a south-facing screened porch, and a number of rooms, and reflecting Victorian influences.^[2]

The house's interior is "quite traditional, with wood floors, high ceilings, and corner fireplaces. D. H. Sutherland was one of La Luz's more substantial landholders, as in 1898 he owned several large parcels and the water rights to them."^[2]

The house hosted A. J. Fountain, an attorney, for the night before he was murdered, in La Luz. Fountain was involved in a La Luz water rights lawsuit and other legal conflicts and was murdered in what is now White Sands, probably by a member of Oliver Lee's gang.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
^ ^a ^b ^c Ellen Threinen (May 23, 1980). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: La Luz Townsite Multiple Resource Area" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved February 4, 2019. With accompanying photo of D.H. Sutherland House from 1979

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.

[mps-2] Ellen Threinen (May 23, 1980). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: La Luz Townsite Multiple Resource Area" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved February 4, 2019. With accompanying photo of D.H. Sutherland House from 1979

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