Above is the home of Charles and Adele Ilfeld, which they bought from Trinidad Romero. This interesting adobe brick home with Classical elements, a common style that evolved in the Distrito de las Escuelas which was a neighborhood for Plaza merchants and others of the upper class of Old Town, suffered a fire in the early 1960's. The Ilfelds were one of many merchant families of German Jewish origin, who pioneered Las Vegas. Some other Jewish pioneer families were the Rosenwalds, the Friedmans, the Jaffas, the Sterns, the Rosenthals and the Kohns. This large Jewish community established the Montefiore congregation, the first in New Mexico Territory.