The historic Santo Domingo Trading Post at Santo Domingo, New Mexico, apparently has set a tentative reopening in 2016 after years of rebuilding following a devastating fire nearly 15 years ago.
The Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper, checking on the post being repainted by cartoonist Ricardo Cate, had this to report:
Although work is about 75 percent complete on restoration of the onetime tourist attraction, whose visitors over the years included President John F. Kennedy, officials don’t expect the business will be up and running until sometime in 2016.
The Kewa Pueblo tribe has used about $1 million in grants to help rebuild the trading post. Momentum for the project accelerated when the Rail Runner Express train decided to create a station near the location.
The Seligman family, which were traders in the Southwest, built the trading post in 1922 that incorporated an 1880 structure. The village became part of Route 66 from 1926 to 1937. The trading post was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
(Old postcard image of Santo Domingo Trading Post courtesy of 66Postcards.com)