601 1/2 Paseo De Peralta Single-Family Houses, NM

Description:

Downtown Historical Tri-plex with 3 units (One Studio, and Two one bedroom units). The Sara Melton House is a late nineteenth-century adobe home which represents a long history of Hispano ownership beginning in 1871, when Nestora Gonzales (de Sisneros), a fifty-year-old widow, and her four children purchased the one-room adobe house for $49. Expanded over the years by family members, the Sara Melton House remains an example of how related, familial, and multi-generational households lived together and enlarged their houses as needed. The home also demonstrates the regional Hispano practice of bequeathing single rooms or groups of rooms to various family members. The Sara Melton House at 601 1/2 Paseo de Peralta has an Historical Preservation Easement on the property and is on the National Historic Preservation Registry. This property could provide considerable Tax Incentives for NM Residents.