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Charles Ilfeld Memorial Chapel

Coordinates: 35°35′48″N 105°14′16″W / 35.59667°N 105.23778°W / 35.59667; -105.23778 (Ilfeld, Charles, Memorial Chapel)
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Charles Ilfeld Memorial Chapel
Charles Ilfeld Memorial Chapel is located in New Mexico
Charles Ilfeld Memorial Chapel
LocationMasonic Cemetery, at Colonias & Romero, Las Vegas, New Mexico
Coordinates35°35′48″N 105°14′16″W / 35.59667°N 105.23778°W / 35.59667; -105.23778 (Ilfeld, Charles, Memorial Chapel)
Arealess than one acre
Built1912
Architectural styleTudor Revival
MPSLas Vegas New Mexico MRA
NRHP reference No.85002657[1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 26, 1985

The Charles Ilfeld Memorial Chapel, located in the Masonic Cemetery at Colonias & Romero in Las Vegas, New Mexico, was built in 1912. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1]

The building serves as a chapel and as home for the Masonic Cemetery's caretaker. It is an L-shaped Tudor Revival-style building with buttresses at ends and midway. It is constructed of rusticated random ashlar sandstone, light brown in color, with reddish mortar. It has a dark brown wood shingle roof, half-timbering in its gable, bargeboards, and exposed rafters.

It was deemed significant as "one of the most richly finished Tudor Revival buildings in New Mexico". It was funded in 1912 by Charles Ilfeld "the State's leading nineteenth-century merchant", who later would fund completion of the larger Adele Ilfeld Auditorium.[2]

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. ^ "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Charles Ilfeld Memorial Chapel / State Survey #1619". National Park Service. 1985. Retrieved November 6, 2018. With accompanying photo from 1983

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