Hooks-Moore Store

The Hooks-Moore Store, at the southwest corner of the junction of NM 61 and Forest Rt. 73 in Mimbres, New Mexico, was built before and during 1922. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1922.[1]

Hooks-Moore Store
LocationNM 61 and Forest Rt. 73, Mimbres, New Mexico
Coordinates32°51′19″N 107°59′02″W
Arealess than one acre
Built1922 (1922)
MPSMimbres Valley MRA
NRHP reference No.88000490[1]
Added to NRHPMay 16, 1988

It is a wood frame and clapboard building with corrugated metal gables. The listing included a second contributing building: an unstuccoed adobe outbuilding with a corrugated metal hipped roof, and with a shed-roofed board-and-batten addition.

In 1988 it was deemed significant as the only surviving historic wood frame structure in the Mimbres Valley, and as one of few unaltered historic buildings in the village of Mimbres, and as "a good representative of the commercial importance of Mimbres in the upper Mimbres valley". Part of the building, the residential portion now at the back, was built before 1922 in a location across the road by Raul Spulveda. J.J. Hooks purchased that in 1922 and moved it to the current location, and further added the front parts, including a false-fronted section. In 1988, it had not further been altered. The false-fronted front portion served as the Mimbres post office. The left portion served as a store run by Hooks and later by Walter Moore.[2]

It was listed on the National Register as part of a 1988 study of historic resources in the Mimbres Valley of Grant County.[3]

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. Chris Wilson (1988). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Hooks-Moore Store". National Park Service. Retrieved February 3, 2019. With accompanying photo from 1982
  3. Chris Wilson (September 10, 1988). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Historic Resources of the Mimbres Valley in Grant County". National Park Service. Retrieved February 2, 2019.


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