LAST surviving structure from Glorieta Battle, Santa Fe, NM
N 35° 34.298 W 105° 45.288
13S E 431605 N 3936700
The Glorieta Battlefield was the western-most Civil War Battle; this is the last remaining structure associated with that battle.
Waymark Code: WMCTTE
Location: New Mexico, United States
Date Posted: 10/11/2011
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This building was used as a field hospital by both the Union and the Confederates, at different times during the Glorieta Battle, in March 1862.
Alexandre "Pigeon" Valle owned the ranch that was called "Pigeon Ranch", and is the location of this adobe structure, the only surviving historic structure from the time of the battle. The building is located only three feet from Highway 50, and is in clear danger of damage from the vehicles that use the highway. The adobe building was originally the front room of the stage stop/lodging facility that Mr. Valle operated. The building was used as a hospital by both the Federal and Confederate armies in 1862.
LINK TO VERIFY "LAST SURVIVING STRUCTURE": "Pigeon's Ranch is the only surviving historic structure on the battlefield from the time of the battle. The building that remains, a shed-roofed adobe house fronting on Highway 50 (the Santa Fe Trail), was the front room of the stage stop and lodging facility operated by Alexandre "Pigeon" Valle." (
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LINK TO THE APPLICATION FOR NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK NOMINATION:
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Quoted from the Nominatin form:
"Alexandre Vallé or Pigeon was born in France and lived in St. Louis in the 1840s. He acquired the site of Pigeon’s Ranch probably in the 1850s, and established a ranch and hostelry there. In the 1880s, the buildings of the ranch were a large rectangular structure on the north side of the road and smaller buildings, sheds, and corrals on the south side around a good well. The north building was built around a central patio, and consisted of a front row of rooms running east to west with a porch along its south side, and a high adobe wall and stables forming the north side of the enclosure. The building contained at least twenty-three rooms in the 1870s and 1880s, and the majority of these were already standing at the time of the Battle of Glorieta Pass in 1862. Most of these buildings and structures have fallen, leaving only three rooms of the north building standing along the north side of New Mexico Highway 50 (in the listings of Pecos National Historical Park, the Pigeon’s Ranch Building is HS# 30, LCS# 66265) and the well on the south side of the highway (Pigeon’s Ranch Well, HS# 31, LCS# 66266). The stone foundations of the rest of the buildings, corrals and sheds are visible around the standing three rooms and well. The standing rooms were stabilized and roofed for weather protection by the Museum of New Mexico in the 1980s. The well is a contributing structure and the ruins (three remaining rooms) of the north building are a contributing site."