Avenida de Mesilla Homes for Sale

Avenida de Mesilla marks the entrance to Old Mesilla, where adobe storefronts, historic plazas and an eighteenth-century church echo the legends of the Wild West. Most famously, Billy the Kid stood trial in Mesilla, where he also made his famous escape from a local jail—now a tourist shop dedicated to the outlaw. “It’s very historic. Billy the Kid was over there. Pat Garrett was over there. There’s a lot of old adobes. Mesilla Plaza is very popular with tourists,” says Douglas Jones, a Realtor with Saenz & Smith Real Estate, Co., referring to the town’s historic central square. “People compare Mesilla to Santa Fe. They like to be close to that Santa Fe feel.” Just north of Old Mesilla, the residential areas in Avenida de Mesilla are close to the interstate and a cluster of neighborhood restaurants. The neighborhood is less than 2 miles from the center of Mesilla, famed for trendy restaurants and boutiques in original adobe brick buildings that surround a historic plaza. “There are some really good restaurants down there. We live almost half an hour in the other direction, and my wife and I will over there for coffee and whatnot,” Jones says. “La Posta is world famous,” he says,