Chaves County Courthouse

	Chaves County Courthouse
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	NM State Register of Cultural Properties
	West face of courthouse
Location	400 Blk. Main St., Roswell, New Mexico
Coordinates	33°23′49″N 104°31′17″W / 33.39694°N 104.52139°W
Area	4 acres (1.6 ha)
Built	1911
Built by	Lyon and Axtell
Architect	Isaac Hamilton Rapp, Rapp & Rapp
Architectural style	Colonial Revival, Federal, Georgian Revival
MPS	County Courthouses of New Mexico TR
NRHP reference No.	87000892
NMSRCP No.	1019
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	February 15, 1989
Designated NMSRCP	June 8, 1984

The Chaves County Courthouse, located on the 400 block of Main Street in Roswell, New Mexico, is the center of government of Chaves County. The courthouse was built in 1911 after Roswell's citizens learned that New Mexico would become a state the next year.^[2] Isaac Hamilton Rapp, of the Colorado firm I.H. and W.M. Rapp,^[3] designed the courthouse in the "monumental civic" adaptation of the Beaux-Arts style.^[4] A cupola with green tiles tops the courthouse.^[5]

The courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 15, 1989.^[1]

Chaves County Courthouse, 1920

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^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ LeMay, John (2009). Chaves County. Arcadia Publishing. p. 106. ISBN 9780738578507.
^ Gregory T. Hicks; Corinne P. Sze (September 1988). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Chaves County Courthouse and Jail" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved January 12, 2016. Accompanying five photos from c. 1915, 1984, and 1988.
^ Pike, David (2003). Roadside New Mexico: A Guide to Historic Markers. UNM Press. p. 332. ISBN 9780826331182.
^ O'Neill, Zora (2011). Moon Handbooks: New Mexico. Avalon Travel. ISBN 9781598809459.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[2] LeMay, John (2009). Chaves County. Arcadia Publishing. p. 106. ISBN 9780738578507.

[nom-3] Gregory T. Hicks; Corinne P. Sze (September 1988). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Chaves County Courthouse and Jail" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved January 12, 2016. Accompanying five photos from c. 1915, 1984, and 1988.

[4] Pike, David (2003). Roadside New Mexico: A Guide to Historic Markers. UNM Press. p. 332. ISBN 9780826331182.

[5] O'Neill, Zora (2011). Moon Handbooks: New Mexico. Avalon Travel. ISBN 9781598809459.

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