Descripción del sitio
500 Douglas Ave
Las Vegas, NM 87701
Build Date: 1921-23
The site of the El Fidel Hotel was originally occupied by a two-story frame hotel built in the early 1880s. After World War I, automotive travel increased along US Highway 85, and civic leaders secured pledges to build improved accommodations for travelers. Built by M.M. Sundt, "The Meadows Hotel" was christened in June, 1923. In 1946 it was purchased by Toufick Fidel of Albuquerque who removed much of the facade's elaborate Spanish Colonial Revival cast stone decoration and renamed it El Fidel.