Historic Plaza Hotel

09/29/2026

"No one ever left Mama Lucy’s hungry, and no one ever left Mama Lucy’s without a friend.”

The coalition that ran the New Mexico House in the 1970s took her name. We’re still pouring where it started.

Come and see where it all began. · Plaza Hotel, Las Vegas NM

09/14/2026

Stay in a room in an 1882 building on the original plaza -- real plaster, tall windows, heavy quilts, and no resort fee attached to any of it.

The bar and breakfast are downstairs,
the plaza is out the front door, and Santa Fe is an hour around the mountain.

Historic hotel Las Vegas New Mexico. No, Not THAT Vegas :)

09/11/2026

09/05/2026

In June 1899, about ten thousand people came to Las Vegas, New Mexico for the
first reunion of the Rough Riders. Theodore Roosevelt was governor of New York
then, not president.
Six hundred of his men turned out, complete with a mile-long parade and
fireworks, and they founded the National Association of Rough Riders that week
right here at the Plaza Hotel.
They came back to this town every August for decades, and just two years later,
Roosevelt was President of the United States.
Historic hotel in Las Vegas, New Mexico, standing on the plaza since 1882.
History happened right here on these streets.
Not that Vegas... Las Vegas, New Mexico.

09/01/2026

In 1913, silent film director Romaine Fielding leased the entire Plaza Hotel, moved his production unit inside, renamed it the Hotel Romaine, and painted massive signage across the building's exterior wall.

It was here that he produced The Golden God, a groundbreaking $50,000
production that stood as the most expensive American film of its time. The epic
shoot featured over 5,000 local extras and staged New Mexico's very first on-screen airplane crash.

Though condemned by censors and never widely released, its fate was sealed in
June 1914 when a disastrous fire at the Lubin vaults in Philadelphia destroyed every known master reel.

Today, the faded Hotel Romaine lettering remains visible on our northwest wall, a
quiet monument to early cinema history right here at the historic Plaza Hotel in Las
Vegas, New Mexico. (Not that Vegas!)

08/28/2026

4.5 stars, 1,300+ reviews, and over 140 years of hospitality. Sharing the love from our wonderful guests!

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08/25/2026

08/24/2026

On November 3, 1889, 63 masked riders swept through the streets of Las Vegas, New Mexico.

They were Las Gorras Blancas, the White Caps. That night, they cut down fences erected by speculators across the half-million-acre Las Vegas Land Grant, land local families had depended on for generations.

Their message was simple: with barbed wire came hunger.

They rode through this very plaza. More than a century later, their story still lives here.

Historic Hotel. Las Vegas, New Mexico. Not that Vegas.

08/20/2026

From a town well to a dark piece of Wild West history, the story of the Hanging Windmill is oneof the Plaza’s wilder tales. Today, a peaceful gazebo sits in its place right across from the historic Plaza Hotel.


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03/20/2026

Happy Spring! As always, we have prepared our quarterly newsletter for you to catch up on all the activity across our properties. We are using a new system for the newsletter distribution, and it's moving a bit slow, so if the email hasn't landed in your inbox yet, be patient! In the meantime, here is link to read all the latest!

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