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Today, the Montezuma Castle, or Davis International Center as it is now known, houses multiple college facilities including the school dining hall, guest and dorm rooms, offices, classrooms, rehearsal spaces, and a student center complete with a store, laundry rooms, pool tables, a dance space, and a
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until 1972. The building then sat empty for a decade and was subject to significant vandalism and decay. The Jesuits made a little money renting the building out as the set for the low budget horror movie
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In addition to the natural recreation available in Montezuma, the hotel provided bowling alleys and billiard rooms. The building was designed and construction was overseen by the Chicago architecture firm
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It operated as a hotel until October 31, 1903, when the railroad deemed it unprofitable. The building was used as a training center by
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as a luxury hotel, capitalizing on the natural hot springs on the site. These were widely thought to ease the suffering of people with
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The building is not open to the public except when the Armand Hammer United World College, also known as
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In 1981, the castle and the surrounding 100 acres were purchased by industrialist and philanthropist
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Church sold it to the Catholic Church in 1937, and it was operated as a seminary for Mexican
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in 1886 (the site was at the time called "Las Vegas Hot Springs," but is now known as "
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University and college buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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to have electric lighting, and they both burned down.
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when he was preparing for his 1912 boxing match with
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hotel building erected just northwest of the city of
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
NM State Register of Cultural Properties

Armand Hammer United World College
Montezuma Castle (hotel) is located in New Mexico
Montezuma Castle (hotel) is located in the United States
Las Vegas, New Mexico
35°39′15″N 105°16′53″W / 35.65417°N 105.28139°W / 35.65417; -105.28139
Queen Anne
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Queen Anne style
Las Vegas, New Mexico
Montezuma
New Mexico
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad
Montezuma
tuberculosis
Theodore Roosevelt
Rutherford B. Hayes
Ulysses S. Grant
William Tecumseh Sherman
John C. Frémont
Jesse James
Henry Manners, 8th Duke of Rutland
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll
Burnham and Root
Jim Flynn

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