Chaves County Courthouse

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]

Chaves County Courthouse
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
NM State Register of Cultural Properties
West face of courthouse
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Location	400 Blk. Main St., Roswell, New Mexico
Coordinates	33°23′49″N 104°31′17″W
Area	4 acres (1.6 ha)
Built	1911 (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[1]
NMSRCP No.	1019
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	February 15, 1989
Designated NMSRCP	June 8, 1984

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

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  Chaves County Courthouse, 1920

See also

• National Register of Historic Places portal

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Chaves County, New Mexico