Las Vegas · Old Town Las Vegas – the Plaza
Plaza Hotel
A three-story brick hotel that Benigno Romero and partners built on the Las Vegas Plaza, seen in Easy Rider and No Country for Old Men.
- Built
- 1882The hotel says Benigno Romero and partners built it in 1881 and describes it as "built in 1882"; the Las Vegas Plaza NRHP nomination says 1880. 1882 is the hotel's usual date. The adjoining Ilfeld building (1882, enlarged 1891) joined the hotel in 2006 with 35 more rooms.
- Style
- Italianate (nomination: Italian Renaissance Revival)
- Type
- Grand hotel
- Area
- Old Town Las Vegas – the Plaza
- Credentials
- Inside a National Register historic district; Local landmark
The story
In the 1880s Las Vegas was the largest town in New Mexico Territory, and land baron Benigno Romero and partners built the Plaza Hotel on its plaza with 37 guest rooms, a saloon, a dance hall and a restaurant. In 1913 silent-film director Romaine Fielding rented the whole hotel for two years, and it has since appeared in films and TV from Tom Mix westerns to Easy Rider, No Country for Old Men and Longmire. A $1 million renovation followed in 1982, and in 2006 Charles Ilfeld’s neighboring 1882 department store was joined to it, adding 35 rooms and a ballroom.
Good to know
- Parking: street
- Pets welcome
- Address: 230 Plaza, Las Vegas, NM 87701
Sources (3)
Last verified October 2026. Details change; confirm with the inn before you book.