Cactus Motor Lodge

Cactus Motor Lodge
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
N.M. State Register of Cultural Properties
Historic neon sign for the lodge
Location	1316 E. Tucumcari Blvd., Tucumcari, New Mexico
Coordinates
Area	3 acres (1.2 ha)
Built	1941 (1941)
Architectural style	Exotic Revival
MPS	Route 66 through New Mexico MPS
NRHP Reference #	06000154
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	March 21, 2006
Designated NMSRCP	December 5, 2005

The Cactus Motor Lodge, now known as the Cactus RV Park, is a motel located along historic U.S. Route 66 in Tucumcari, New Mexico. I.E. and Edna Perry built the lodge in 1941. The motel included three wings of units forming a "U" shape and an office, the latter of which was a dance hall when the motel opened. In 1952, Norm Wegner purchased the motel; Wegner added an artificial stone exterior to the buildings and converted the dance hall to an office. After Route 66 was decommissioned, the motel lost much of its business, and by the 1990s it became an RV park; the motel units are currently unused. The motel's neon sign was restored in 2008.

The motel was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 21, 2006.

Postcard promoting the motor lodge

See also

• List of motels

External links

• More photos of the Cactus RV Park at Wikimedia Commons