Roy T. Herman's Garage and Service Station

Roy T. Herman's Garage and Service Station
Location NM 122, 150 yds. W of I-40 exit, Thoreau, New Mexico
Coordinates 35°23′50″N 108°13′27″W / 35.39722°N 108.22417°W / 35.39722; -108.22417 (Herman's, Roy T., Garage and Service Station)Coordinates: 35°23′50″N 108°13′27″W / 35.39722°N 108.22417°W / 35.39722; -108.22417 (Herman's, Roy T., Garage and Service Station)
Area less than one acre
Built 1935
MPS Route 66 through New Mexico MPS
NRHP reference # 93001212[1]
Added to NRHP November 22, 1993

Roy T. Herman's Garage and Service Station, located in Thoreau, New Mexico on the former U.S. Route 66, what is now New Mexico State Road 122, about 150 yards west of an exit from Interstate 40, was built in 1935. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.[1]

It was built as a Standard Oil Company station on Route 66 in Grants, New Mexico in 1935. It was moved to Thoreau in 1937, where it was the first business on a new stretch of new alignment of the highway, and it servied as a filling station until 1963, then moved 200 yards along the highway to serve as a car repair garage.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2013-11-02). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ David J. Kammer (August 1993). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Herman's, Roy T., Garage and Service Station". National Park Service. Retrieved July 20, 2018. With accompanying photo
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