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Photograph of A. A. Salazar House
Photograph by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

A.A. Salazar House

Built in 1906 (Queen Anne style). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“Salazar House, at 603 Main St. in San Luis, Colorado, United States, is a Queen Anne-style house built in 1906. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.”

Wikipedia article A. A. Salazar House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Costilla County · listed in 1998 · category: Building · built in 1906, Queen Anne style.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Salazar, A.A., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 603 Main St., San Luis, 81152
  • When was it listed? January 1998
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Ornamental Concrete Block Buildings in Colorado MPS
  • Census division. San Luis
  • When was it built? 1906
  • Architectural style. Queen Anne style
  • National Register reference number. 97001281 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of A.A. Salazar House between 1994 and 2020, burning about 68 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
21 September 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCostilla County Fire Protection DistrictN/A
11 June 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreCostilla County Fire Protection DistrictN/A
5 April 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCostilla County Fire Protection DistrictN/A
26 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCostilla County Fire Protection DistrictN/A
25 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreCostilla County Fire Protection DistrictN/A
22 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCostilla County Fire Protection DistrictN/A
24 March 2020Debris and open burning67 acresCostilla County Fire Protection DistrictN/A
6 January 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCostilla County Fire Protection Districtnot named

Every fire recorded in Costilla County

Storms near this property

3 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names San Luis, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2009: 2 hail, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1996HailSan Luis$450,000no account filed
August 2009Flash FloodSan Luis$30,000The San Luis Peoples Ditch had two breaches, flooding two properties. Some house experience flooding of basements and crawl spaces. Several county roads were washed out.
May 2008HailSan Luis-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Costilla County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Rito Seco Creek Culvert0.2 miles2002
"Sierras y Colores" Mural0.2 miles2023
San Luis Bridge0.6 miles1985
Plaza de San Luis de la Culebra1.0 miles1978
Iglesia de San Pedro y San Pablo3.1 miles2012
Iglesia de la Inmaculada Concepcion3.6 miles2012

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 97001281 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Costilla CountyAll 13 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.