Iglesia de San Ysidro

The church nearly passed into private hands. The diocese deconsecrated it in the early 1960s and built a new church on Corrales Road; in 1973 a couple buying the neighboring historic house asked to buy the old church too. The diocese would not sell to an individual, so residents led by the historian Alan Minge formed the Corrales Historical Society in 1974 and bought it for $9,500 on a loan the village later paid off. A plaque beside the door records that 21 coffins lie under its floor, ten of them recovered from the flood of 1868.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Petroglyph National Monument — 10.0 mi
  Some 24,000 images pecked into the dark basalt of Albuquerque's West Mesa, protected in 1990 and then crossed by a city boulevard.

More markers nearby

• Corrales — 1.0 mi
• Alameda — 1.8 mi
• Tiguex Province — 2.5 mi
• Dulcelina Salce Curtis (1904-1995) — 2.6 mi