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Viceregal Mansion

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Viceregal Mansion

August 20, 2026

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The San Elizario house long known locally as the “viceregal mansion” was never occupied by a Spanish viceroy, according to Luz Escajeda Flores, who lived there with her family from 1916 to 1919. The property’s front section of eleven rooms was built by Charles E. Smith, an American who was later…

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