H. B. Ailman House
New Mexico, United States
Exterior only
Visible from the street; the inside is private.
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The H. B. Ailman House is a brick Victorian residence located at 314 W. Broadway in Silver City, New Mexico, built by prospector Henry B. Ailman with wealth from the Naiad Queen Silver Mine in Georgetown. The 2½-story structure features a distinctive square turret, which Ailman used as a vantage point to watch for Apache attacks on the growing mining town. Originally accompanied by an identical house built by Ailman's business partner H. M. Meredith next door, the building has served multiple civic and cultural purposes: it functioned as City Hall beginning in 1926, later as a firehouse, and since 1967 as the Silver City Museum, where it continues to operate as a historic house museum. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
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- Type
- house
- Heritage
- listed on the New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties, National Register of Historic Places listed place
- Place
- New Mexico, United States
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