{"nrhp_refnum":"72001359","name":"Socorro Mission","other_names":["Mission Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion del Puebla de Socorr"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Moon Rd. and TX 258","address_restricted":false,"city":"Socorro","county":"El Paso County","state":"TX","lat":31.659363936000034,"lon":-106.30349019099998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-03-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Historic - Non-Aboriginal","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Catholic mission church (Mission Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion del Pueblo de Socorro) at Moon Road and FM 258 in Socorro, El Paso County, Texas, built of adobe around 1840 after an 1829 flood destroyed the earlier mission.","why_significant":"The mission was founded in 1682 to serve Piro, Tano and Jemez Indians displaced from New Mexico after the Pueblo Revolt. Its massing, materials and native decorative elements reflect Spanish New Mexican architectural traditions. The church reuses painted vigas salvaged from the eighteenth-century mission and has served the community continuously.","narrative":"Socorro Mission is an adobe church in Socorro, Texas, built around 1840 after an 1829 flood changed the course of the Rio Grande and destroyed the earlier mission and pueblo. Its whitewashed walls, roughly four feet thick, form a nearly H-shaped plan 117 feet long. The south facade has a central doorway, statuary niches, and a stepped parapet carrying a wall belfry. Inside, the finest feature is the set of painted ceiling beams salvaged from the eighteenth-century mission, topped by saplings laid in a herringbone pattern. The mission traces to 1682, when it was founded for Piro, Tano and Jemez Indians who fled New Mexico with the Spanish after the Pueblo Revolt. Its massing, materials and decorative elements show kinship with seventeenth-century New Mexican architecture. A statue of Saint Michael, tied to a local legend, remains on the altar in the west transept. The church has served the surrounding community since its founding and remains in active use.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Spanish New Mexican mission architecture (adobe, stepped parapets, espadana)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as good; the church is an active religious institution with its fabric basically unchanged apart from replaced windows, doors and some interior decoration.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:18.933113-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/33/9718/40971833/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/72001359.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72001359/768a1dd539-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72001359/768a1dd539-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.0","author":"gabi. from são paulo, brasil","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Socorro_mission_front.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">gabi. from são paulo, brasil</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Socorro_mission_front.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"97000885","name":"El Paso County Water Improvement District No. 1","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/texas/el-paso-county-water-improvement-district-no-1-97000885/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40971833","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socorro_Mission","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3859261"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/el-paso-county/socorro-mission-72001359/"}