600-604 Douglas , Las Vegas, NM 87701(San Miguel County)

The Crockett Building was designed as a mixture of the many different styles that the Rapp brothers had utilized in their career as architects. Influenced by the La Castaneda Hotels Mission Revival styling, the Rapps used tin roofing with a clay-tile appearance to top the oriel windows and capped the corners of the building with minimalist Missionesque parapeted corner towers. The addition of the medieval shaped oriel windows gives the towers more the look of battlements, resulting in a simplified Gothic Revival feeling overall. The use of Victorian brackets, Italianate grouped circle top windows, and neo-classical touches, such as dentils and a classical side entry, shows how the Rapp brothers freely experimented with the design, eschewing any strict interpretation of style.

Built on the site and foundation of the grand St. Nicholas Hotel, on the prominent corner of Sixth and Douglas Streets, William L. Crockett built one of the largest commercial structures in new town Las Vegas, New Mexico. The buff-brick Crockett Block was built in 1899, replacing one of the last large frame structures in New Town. The prolific Rapp brothers were the visionaries for what is likely Las Vegas most eclectic architectural design. More than any other building in Las Vegas, the Crockett Block building became the focal point for a downtown, as two street railway lines passed in a curvilinear fashion in front of the building.

The name that has the strongest association with the Crockett Building was and still is Edward G. Murpheys Drug Store at 600 Douglas Street. Murphey was born in 1857 and, as a young man, was a druggist for the Northern Illinois Hospital for the Insane in Elgin, Illinois. A bachelor his entire life, Murphey dedicated himself to his store in the Crockett Block Building and expanded his enterprise to include bookselling and the postcard business. In this regard, Murphey became one of Las Vegas most important photographers. Though he died in 1920, the Crockett Block bears his business name today.

This grand old property is being offered at $600,000 as is.