Clement ‘Pop’ Shaffer, Shaffer Hotel and Rancho Bonito

A group of buildings considered to be among the finest works of the Pueblo-deco period. Created by both “Pop” and Lena Imboden Shaffer, his second wife referred to as “Ma.” http://shafferhotel.com. The Shaffer Hotel and Ranhco Bonito are listed on the National Register of Historical Places.

~SPACES Archives

2 folders: clippings, correspondence, images, pamphlets, national historic places nomination forms

Letter to K.T. Walsh from Seymour Rosen/SPACES, 8/11/1982

Letter to SPACES/R. Sue Smith from Jackie Hudgeons, 10/1989

Pamphlet for Shaffer Hotel

Letter to SPACES/Seymour Rosen from Carol R. Schnieder, Morrow and Company, ltd, 8/1/1989

Letter to SPACES/Seymour Rosen from Judith Chiba Smith, Museum of New Mexico, 8/25/1989

Letter to Terri Hartman/SPACES from Judith Chiba Smith, Museum of New Mexico, 5/18/1989

Reproduction/Publication Fee Schedule for Museum of New Mexico

Letter to R. Sue Smith and Seymour Rosen/SPACES from Merrill R. Grinnell

Letter to Kathleen Brooker, NM Historic Preservation Bureau from Merrill R. Grinnell, 11/15/1982

Letter to Carla Breeze from Merrill R. Grinnell, 11/15/1982

Letter to Merrill R. Grinnell from Carla Breeze

Letter to Merrill R. Grinnell from Carla Breeze, 11/9/1982

Nomination form for National Register of Historic Places, 8/29/1978

Nomination form for National Register of Historic Places, 9/5/1978

Exerpt from National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form for Los Poblanos Historic District, 11/15/1978

Hand drawn map of Rancho Bonito

Letter from Darlene Hoodman

Handwritten memo about Hotel Shaffer

Handwritten memo about Carla Breeze

Handwritten memo about Pop Shaffer

 Draft of document about Rancho Bonito and Shaffer Hotel

Letter to Chuck and Janice Rosenak from Seymour Rosen/SPACES, 4/17/1986

Letter to Cynthia Pansing/SPACES from James Boll, US Dept of Interior, 9/29/1988

Business card for Bowlin’s Inc

postcard for “The Thing?”

Letter to SPACES/Seymour Rosen from Stacy Hollander, Museum of American Folk Art, 10/4/1988

306 W Main St
Mountainair, New Mexico, United States
Latitude/Longitude: 34.519298 / -106.243809

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