English: The Ricardo Alarid House is a one-story, ell-shaped structure, built

primarily of adobe brick covered with cement plaster that has been painted white. A simple portal (long porch) extends along the entire main facade. The roof of the front section of the house is flat, that of a small addition at the back slightly pitched. The building is large in comparison with other houses in this modest residential neighborhood about a mile and a half from the center of town, and it is set well back from the street in the approximate center of a lot which is also larger than those in the immediate vicinity. The main front door enters into a large room which has retained its character despite the addition of a partial frame dividing wall. A wainscoting of dark-stained pine remains around much of its perimeter matched by similarly stained woodwork around the windows. Having been neglected for many years the building shows some deterioration, however, by the same token, with the exception of the window changes noted

below, it has not been substantially altered in the last fifty years.