Will M. Robins House
house in Sierra County, New Mexico
The Will M. Robins House, at the southwest corner of Main St. and Fifth Ave. in Hillsboro, New Mexico, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
It is a one-story adobe building whose first two rooms were built before 1893. It was expanded before 1930 and modified again in 1960. It was further modified by a film company making the movie Cheatin' Hearts in 1991.
A second contributing building in the listing is a combination stone cistern and wellhouse.
“Will M. Robins House” enters the record as house in Sierra County, New Mexico. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Will, Robins and House can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q65117104. Authority coordinates are 32.919, -107.572. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1995, 1893, 1930 and 1960.
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