Route 66 - Jr's Tire and Auto Parts - Moriarty, NM
by Susan Rissi Tregoning
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Route 66 - Jr's Tire and Auto Parts - Moriarty, NM
Artist
Susan Rissi Tregoning
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Photograph - Photography
Description
Jr’s Tire and Auto Parts, located on the Route 66 commercial strip in Moriarty, New Mexico, is the former Greene Evans Garage.
Greene Evans was a local welder who built this stucco Southwest Vernacular garage himself in 1940 and ran his business here for many years. Locals attribute the large fixed window in the building’s southeast curved corner wall as a reminder of Evans’s talent as a skilled welder.
The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993 for its importance to Route 66 history in the transportation and architectural categories. The garage was one of the earliest to pop up along the new Route 66 alignment after the Santa Fe Loop was cut off in 1937. It also reflects small-town rural gas station building practices before the rise of franchise gas station architecture.
Copyright 2022 Susan Rissi Tregoning
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March 6th, 2022
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