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(Oct. 1990) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES REGISTRATION FORM 1. NAME OF PROPERTY HISTORIC NAME: Fairview Cemetery OTHER NAME/SITE NUMBER: N/A 2. LOCATION STREET & NUMBER: 1134 Cerrillos Road NOT FOR PUBLICATION: N/A CITY OR TOWN: Santa Fe VICINITY: N/A STATE: New Mexico CODE: NM COUNTY: Santa Fe CODE: 049 ZIP CODE: 87505 3. STATE/FEDERAL AGENCY CERTIFICATION_____________________________________________ As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, I hereby certify that this _x_nomination __request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my opinion, the property _x_meets __does not meet the National Register criteria. I recommend that this property be considered significant __nationally _X_statewidex_ Jocally. (__See continuation sheet for additional comments.) s\j^^P SigriSfure of certifying official ' Date State Historic Preservation Officer ____ __________________ State or Federal agency and bureau In my opinion, the property meets __does not meet the National Register criteria. (__See continuation sheet for additional comments.) Signature of commenting or other official Date State or Federal agency and bureau 4. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE CERTIFICATION I hereby certify that this property is: ^ A^Signalure Qftthe Keooer /I II Date of Actio: V entered in the National Register (JO^ldVl^ 70^ \2l? j#A/V-^ / / 3D 10 __ See continuation sheet. __ determined eligible for the National Register __ See continuation sheet. __ determined not eligible for the National Register removed from the National Register other (explain): _____ __ USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form Fairview Cemetery, Santa Fe, Santa Fe County, New Mexico Page 2 5. CLASSIFICATION OWNERSHIP OF PROPERTY: Private CATEGORY OF PROPERTY: District NUMBER OF RESOURCES WITHIN PROPERTY: CONTRIBUTING NONCONTRIBUTING 1 0 BUILDINGS 0 0 SITES 6 1 STRUCTURES 1 1 OBJECTS 2 TOTAL NUMBER OF CONTRIBUTING RESOURCES PREVIOUSLY LISTED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER: 0 NAME OF RELATED MULTIPLE PROPERTY LISTING: N/A 6. FUNCTION OR USE HISTORIC FUNCTIONS: FUNERARY: cemetery DOMESTIC: single Dwelling CURRENT FUNCTIONS: FUNERARY: cemetery DOMESTIC: single Dwelling 7. DESCRIPTION ARCHITECTURAL CLASSIFICATION: LATE 19th and 20th CENTURY REVIVALS: Pueblo (Revival) MATERIALS: FOUNDATION STONE WALLS STUCCO ROOF APSPHALT OTHER N/A NARRATIVE DESCRIPTION (see continuation sheets 7-5 through 7-9). USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form Fairview Cemetery, Santa Fe, Santa Fe County, New Mexico___________________Page 3 8. STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE___________________________________ APPLICABLE NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA _X_ A PROPERTY is ASSOCIATED WITH EVENTS THAT HAVE MADE A SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION TO THE BROAD PATTERNS OF OUR HISTORY. _ B PROPERTY is ASSOCIATED WITH THE LIVES OF PERSONS SIGNIFICANT IN OUR PAST. _ C PROPERTY EMBODIES THE DISTINCTIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF A TYPE, PERIOD, OR METHOD OF CONSTRUCTION OR REPRESENTS THE WORK OF A MASTER, OR POSSESSES HIGH ARTISTIC VALUE, OR REPRESENTS A SIGNIFICANT AND DISTINGUISHABLE ENTITY WHOSE COMPONENTS LACK INDIVIDUAL DISTINCTION. _ D PROPERTY HAS YIELDED, OR is LIKELY TO YIELD, INFORMATION IMPORTANT IN PREHISTORY OR HISTORY. CRITERIA CONSIDERATIONS: D, Cemeteries AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE: POLITICS/GOVERNMENT; COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT PERIOD OF SIGNIFICANCE: 1884-1954 SIGNIFICANT DATES: 1884; 1899 SIGNIFICANT PERSON: N/A CULTURAL AFFILIATION: N/A ARCHITECT/BUILDER: unknown NARRATIVE STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE (see continuation sheets 8-10 through 8-61). 9. MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES_________________________________________________ BIBLIOGRAPHY (see continuation sheet 9-62 through 9-67). PREVIOUS DOCUMENTATION ON FILE (NPS): N/A _ preliminary determination of individual listing (36 CFR 67) has been requested. _ previously listed in the National Register _ previously determined eligible by the National Register _ designated a National Historic Landmark _ recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey # _ recorded by Historic American Engineering Record # PRIMARY LOCATION OF ADDITIONAL DATA: x State historic preservation office (Historic Preservation Division, Office of Cultural Affairs) x Other state agency _ Federal agency _ Local government _ University _ Other - Specify Repository: USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form Fairview Cemetery Santa Fe, Santa Fe County, New Mexico___________________Page 4 10. GEOGRAPHICAL DATA_____________________________________________________ ACREAGE OF PROPERTY: approximately 4 acres UTM REFERENCES Zone Easting Northing 1 13 413200E 3948371N VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION (see continuation sheet 10-68) BOUNDARY JUSTIFICATION (see continuation sheet 10-68 ) 11. FORM PREPARED BY_______________________________________________________ NAME/TITLE: Corinne P. Sze, Ph.D. for the Fairview Cemetery Preservation Association ORGANIZATION: Research Services of Santa Fe DATE: August 2004 STREET & NUMBER: Santa Fe STATE: NM ZIP CODE: 87501 ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTATION_________________________________ CONTINUATION SHEETS MAPS (see attached Santa Fe, NM 7.5-minitues U.S.G.S. topographic quad map) PHOTOGRAPHS (see continuation sheet Photo-69 through Photo-71) ADDITIONAL ITEMS PROPERTY OWNER_________________________________________ NAME: Fairview Cemetery Preservation Association STREET & NUMBER: 1134 Cerrillos Road TELEPHONE: 505-989-1623 CITY OR TOWN: Santa Fe STATE: NM ZIP CODE: 87505 NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Fairview Cemetery Section 7 Page 5 ________________Santa Fe, Santa Fe County, New Mexico DESCRIPTION Fairview Cemetery occupies an irregularly shaped site of about four acres on level terrain that faces south onto Cerrillos Road in the city of Santa Fe. The cemetery is divided into eight sections (A-F, I, B-Front) defined, for the most part, by about one-half mile of unpaved roadways. Founded in 1884, Fairview contains more than 3,700 burials of which approximately 1,500 are not marked. 1 Gravestones date from 1862 to the present. Commercial, upright stone markers predominate in the oldest sections (A-D) and most face east. Crosses and folk expressions appear primarily in Sections E, F, and I. Since 1981, over sixty previously unmarked graves have been marked with flat, gray-granite markers. There are three mausoleums and one sarcophagus in the cemetery, each contributing. Some family or individual plots are outlined in concrete curbing, stones, or other low materials; others have corner markers inscribed with a last-name initial. Just two are fenced. The nominated property contains a contributing adobe caretaker's house and small, related shed, located near the northeast corner of the property. The site is planted in grass and landscaped with bushes and primarily deciduous, shade trees. Parts of the lawn and many of the oldest trees have succumbed to the extended drought of recent years, which has necessitated severe city watering restrictions. A historic wrought-iron fence encloses the property along Cerrillos Road. The smaller of two iron gates was moved in 1901 from an earlier Masonic and Odd Fellows cemetery; a larger vehicle gate is recent. Chain-link fencing encloses the other perimeters of the property. The cemetery remains in use and, since 1998, has been owned and operated by the Fairview Cemetery Preservation Association (FCPA). DESCRIPTION Fairview Cemetery is located about one and a half miles southwest of the Santa Fe Plaza near the intersection of Cerrillos road (NM 14, US 85) with St. Francis Drive (US 84-285) and opposite the intersection of Cerrillos and Cordova Roads. The property is bounded on the east by New Mexico School for the Deaf (NMSD), on the west by a small Independent Order of Odd Fellows (I.O.O.F.) Cemetery, and on the north by a railway right-of-way. The cemetery's eight sections are lettered roughly by age. The roads that define the oldest sections (A- D) meet at a center point. Sections A, B, and D are roughly rectangular; Section C is truncated at the southwest where it faces Cerrillos Road and is divided by the road leading from the vehicular entrance on Cerrillos Road. The road that once separated Sections B and C is overgrown (Figure 7-1). Many of the headstones in sections A-D are variations of tablets on stone bases that are either plain or rusticated (Photo 4). Obelisks are less frequent and Gothic points rare. The earliest monuments are marble; later limestone and gray granite became predominate. Inscriptions are brief and epitaphs infrequent. Many stones outside of a designated Masonic area are marked with symbols representing Masonic and other organizations, 1 Meyer et al. v. NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Fairview Cemetery Section 7 Page 6 _________________Santa Fe, Santa Fe County, New Mexico including the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite (AASR), Order of the Eastern Star (OES), Elks (BPOE), Woodmen of the World (W.O.W.), Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), and Sons of the American Revolution (SAR). A few markers have inscriptions in other languages such as Hebrew (Photo 16) or Spanish; some