Roswell Pioneer Plaza
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This plaza incorporates two of downtown Roswell's most historic buildings. East of this location is the Chavez County Courthouse, built in 1911. It is one of the best surviving examples of courthouses built in the Beaux Arts Revival "monumental civic style" architecture. The nearby Conoco service station was built in the 1920s.
It is one of the few remaining architecturally intact gasoline stations from this early period of New Mexico's transportation history.
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