Flying H Ranch

Off US 70 between Hope and Elk Area, Roswell, New Mexico. County/parish: Chaves.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 14, 1988. NRIS 85003633.

Part of Roswell New Mexico MRA (NRIS 64000526).

10 contributing buildings.

From Wikipedia:

Flying H Ranch

The Flying H Ranch, near Roswell, New Mexico, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. The listing included 10 contributing buildings on four discontinuous areas.

Billy the Kid worked on the ranch, and it includes a dugout where Billy the Kid hid later.

It is located off U.S. Route 70 between Hope and Elk Area.

It includes New Mexico vernacular architecture.

It includes:

• the James J. Dolan House (early 1890s), a one-story L-shaped building of adobe covered with clapboard, built by James J. Dolan.
• the Clement Hendricks House (c.1929), an adobe house enlarged from a pre-existing adobe dwelling. It has a stepped parapet.
• more

A home of Pat Garrett, the Patrick Floyd Garrett House, not too far away, is separate, and is also listed on the National Register.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/77845993