LA FONDA ON THE PLAZA, SANTA FEB
The current structure of this historic New Mexico hotel was built in 1922, but records indicate that the site held the city’s first inn dating all the way back to the early 1600s. It was a favorite stopover for fortune-seekers headed west, and is said to have retained a few of its more spirited guests, including John P. Slough, Chief Justice of the Territorial Supreme Court, who was shot and killed in the hotel lobby in 1867 and a spectral gambler who supposedly threw himself into the hotel’s well after a bad hand and has been reported rising from the hotel fountain.
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