Gilbert Martinez Barn

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Gilbert Martinez Barn is a small historic barn near Los Ojos, New Mexico. Built around 1875, it sits about 50 feet east of La Puente Road and 80 yards south of Hatchery Road, on the edge of the first river plateau. The barn is a simple, traditional Hispanic structure made of hewn horizontal logs joined with a double box notch. It has a corrugated metal roof and vertical boards on the gable end. The building has no foundation; the walls, including attic walls and loft cross beams, are made of hewn logs, suggesting they may have been reused from nearby Fort Lowell. A tree-ring analysis was conducted, and the barn could help date local log construction and the introduction of the attic wall. The Gilbert Martinez Barn was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 4, 1985. It remains an unusually well-preserved example of a late-19th-century Hispanic barn.