A six-floor brick building with Art Deco features that was built in the Roaring 20s is up for sale in downtown Raton, New Mexico.
Located at 200 S. 2nd Street, the structure measures just under 49,000 square feet and has for decades served as the corporate headquarters for the International Bank commercial banking chain.
The tallest building in Raton, the structure was built in 1928 by the Swastika Coal Company, also of Raton, and originally served as a hotel. In the late 1930s, with the rise of the Third Reich in Germany, the Swastika Hotel was renamed, becoming the Yucca Hotel.
Valued locally as an architectural treasure, the structure is distinguished for its above-window tiled arches and a brick cornice band crowning the building with alternating patterns of squares and circles.
Listed with the Raton-based realtor Home Associates Incorporated, the building underwent a comprehensive renovation in 1980 and has an asking price of $475,000.
By Garry Boulard
