Location: 406 W. Las Cruces Ave.
Built: About 1910.
Historic use: Residential. Current use: Residential.
Architectural Style: Colonial Revival.
Material/Structural System: Faceted stone. The faceted stone was an early form of concrete block.
Original owner(s): Thomas Branigan and Alice Montgomery Branigan.
Originally from Edinburgh, Scotland, Captain Thomas Branigan, a well-known name in Las Cruces area, moved to Ohio with his family in 1849 when he was only 2 years old. Among the positions he held, he served as captain of Indian Police and was involved in the campaign to capture Geronimo, was Doña Ana County Assessor, member and treasurer of the Doña Ana Republican Central Committee, and did other public works. After moving to Las Cruces, he started raising bees to produce honey.
Thomas Branigan, along with W.H.H. Llewellyn, led the search for the Fountains in 1896. Branigan's wife Alice, a very active member of the community, donated the home to the city, to build a public library in her husband's memory. The one-and-a-half story building originally owned by Thomas Branigan, features artificial stone (cast concrete blocks in the form of rusticated stone), side gabled roof with gabled front dormers, wooden shingles siding, 1/1 wooden double-hung windows, and a distinctive entrance with a bright red door, and white framed transom window and sidelights. The raised house lies over short wood stilts and the front porch is supported by four Doric columns.
Built: About 1910.
Historic use: Residential. Current use: Residential.
Architectural Style: Colonial Revival.
Material/Structural System: Faceted stone. The faceted stone was an early form of concrete block.
Original owner(s): Thomas Branigan and Alice Montgomery Branigan.
Originally from Edinburgh, Scotland, Captain Thomas Branigan, a well-known name in Las Cruces area, moved to Ohio with his family in 1849 when he was only 2 years old. Among the positions he held, he served as captain of Indian Police and was involved in the campaign to capture Geronimo, was Doña Ana County Assessor, member and treasurer of the Doña Ana Republican Central Committee, and did other public works. After moving to Las Cruces, he started raising bees to produce honey.
Thomas Branigan, along with W.H.H. Llewellyn, led the search for the Fountains in 1896. Branigan's wife Alice, a very active member of the community, donated the home to the city, to build a public library in her husband's memory. The one-and-a-half story building originally owned by Thomas Branigan, features artificial stone (cast concrete blocks in the form of rusticated stone), side gabled roof with gabled front dormers, wooden shingles siding, 1/1 wooden double-hung windows, and a distinctive entrance with a bright red door, and white framed transom window and sidelights. The raised house lies over short wood stilts and the front porch is supported by four Doric columns.
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