Otowi Historic District, Santa Fe County, NM (2)
**Otowi Historic District** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 75001170, date listed 12/4/1975
25 mi. N of Santa Fe, on NM 4 in Rio Grande Valley
NM (Santa Fe County)
The Otowi Bridge Historic District, situated some three miles south of the Pueblo of San Ildefonso, encompasses a wide, sandy crossing of the Rio Grande along the floor of the valley. From this region the river enters a narrow precipitous channel through White Rock Canyon to the south and drops to the Rio Abajo (Lower Valley). The district lies within the grant boundary of the Pueblo of San Ildefonso. Although there is evidence of various archeological sites in the district, probably ancestral Tewa, none of these have been surveyed or excavated.
Existing structures within the district include: the 1886 "Chili Line" steel railway trestle with an 1895 water gauging station; the 1921 single-lane wood suspension highway bridge; a small hand-operated, open cable-car system paralleling the 1921 bridge; the 1947 two-lane span through steel highway bridge; and four remaining adobe structures of Miss Edith Warner's once well-known guest house and "tearoom" establishment which was frequented by the scientists involved in the secret Manhattan atomic bomb project at Los Alamos during World War II. (1)
References (1) NRHP Nomination Form s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg...
Otowi Historic District, Santa Fe County, NM (2)
**Otowi Historic District** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 75001170, date listed 12/4/1975
25 mi. N of Santa Fe, on NM 4 in Rio Grande Valley
NM (Santa Fe County)
The Otowi Bridge Historic District, situated some three miles south of the Pueblo of San Ildefonso, encompasses a wide, sandy crossing of the Rio Grande along the floor of the valley. From this region the river enters a narrow precipitous channel through White Rock Canyon to the south and drops to the Rio Abajo (Lower Valley). The district lies within the grant boundary of the Pueblo of San Ildefonso. Although there is evidence of various archeological sites in the district, probably ancestral Tewa, none of these have been surveyed or excavated.
Existing structures within the district include: the 1886 "Chili Line" steel railway trestle with an 1895 water gauging station; the 1921 single-lane wood suspension highway bridge; a small hand-operated, open cable-car system paralleling the 1921 bridge; the 1947 two-lane span through steel highway bridge; and four remaining adobe structures of Miss Edith Warner's once well-known guest house and "tearoom" establishment which was frequented by the scientists involved in the secret Manhattan atomic bomb project at Los Alamos during World War II. (1)
References (1) NRHP Nomination Form s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg...