A motel in Gallup that once served a thriving Route 66 trade is on the market for $299,000.
Built in 1950, the one-story rectangular-shaped Hacienda Hotel is located at 2510 Highway 66 and sits on a 1.3-acre site. It was originally called La Hacienda Court, with “Where the Summer Nights Are Always Cool” used as the motel’s slogan.
The 32-room Hacienda, still in business as of 2021, was closed early the following year by the City of Gallup, along with a handful of other Route 66 motels in the area, for several building code violations.
According to the Gallup Sun, it was determined that “all six of the motels had violations that posed a threat to the public’s health, safety, and welfare.”
Listed by the Cedar & Ivey Real Estate firm of Gallup, the Hacienda Motel is regarded as a Class C building. A Loopnet advertisement for the property suggests that whoever ends up buying the structure and surrounding site may well end up demolishing the building in order to use the property “for a different purpose.”
Connecting Chicago with Los Angeles, Route 66 was launched in the fall of 1926, with a New Mexico hub running east to west across the central part of the state. The route slices through Gallup, where it was first paved in 1934, becoming a two-way road by the early 1940s.
By Garry Boulard
