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Mathew Elmore Sewalt House

Coordinates: 32°57′12″N 103°20′52″W / 32.95333°N 103.34778°W / 32.95333; -103.34778
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Mathew Elmore Sewalt House
Mathew Elmore Sewalt House is located in New Mexico
Mathew Elmore Sewalt House
Mathew Elmore Sewalt House is located in the United States
Mathew Elmore Sewalt House
Location121 E. Jefferson Ave., Lovington, New Mexico
Coordinates32°57′12″N 103°20′52″W / 32.95333°N 103.34778°W / 32.95333; -103.34778
Arealess than one acre
Built1909, 1916
Built byMathew Elmore Sewalt
Architectural styleBungalow/craftsman
NRHP reference No.06000634[1]
NMSRCP No.1883[2]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPJuly 19, 2006
Designated NMSRCPOctober 14, 2005

The Mathew Elmore Sewalt House, on E. Jefferson Avenue in Lovington, New Mexico, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. It was built in two phases in 1909 and 1916 and has also been known as the Sewalt House and as the Sewalt-Waits House.[1]

It is a one-and-a-half-story adobe house with concrete stucco. It was started by Ham Bishop as an adobe pyramidal roof house. It was bought by "up-and-coming rancher" Mathew Sewalt in 1916, and he expanded it. It has Craftsman details including exposed rafter ends and a low shed-roof dormer.

Unfortunately Sewalt died young, in the 1918 influenza epidemic, but he had contributed "much to Lovington's improvement, including organizing corporations that founded the town's first bank and financed its first modem hotel." The house is significant as one of the better examples of a town home in Lovington "and reflects the shortlived prosperity of the town and the rancher who owned it."[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "New Mexico's Rich Cultural Heritage: Listed State and National Register Properties" (PDF). New Mexico Historic Preservation Division. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 10, 2014. Retrieved June 7, 2017.
  3. ^ David L. Minton and John W. Murphey (March 2006). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Mathew Elmore Sewalt House / Sewalt House / Sewalt-Waits House". National Park Service. Retrieved June 6, 2017. With six photos.