Built sometime before 1869, the Luna-Chavez House is a good example of early New Mexican territorial architecture. The Luna-Chavez House was originally two separate houses that were joined by adding a central entrance room. Juan José and Isabella Lopez, whose daughter Joséfa married José Montaño, lived in this house.

Juan José Lopez served on the April 1878 grand jury that cleared Alexander McSween of larceny charges in connection with the estate of Emil Fritz. Residents of the other half of today’s Luna House included Lincoln’s own Romeo and Juliet: Florencio Chavez, a Tunstall-McSween partisan, and his wife Teodora, whose father was Sheriff William Brady, a Murphy-Dolan man. The building currently houses an art gallery operated by the Lincoln Historic Site, dedicated to fine art related to the region.