Constructed 1860. Kit Carson gained national fame during the Santa Fe Trail era as a scout and military leader. Originally from Missouri, Carson settled in Taos and married into the local Jaramillo family. His house on Kit Carson Road near the plaza retains its distinctive Territorial style portal and is Read more…
Constructed 1850. The High Road to Taos departs Santa Fe and climbs through picturesque mountain valleys home to some of New Mexico’s oldest settlements. Proceed through Pojoaque, Nambe, Chimayo, Cordova, Truchas, Trampas, Penasco and Ranchos de Taos onto the arts center of Taos. Some of the state’s most spectacular scenery Read more…
Constructed 1916. In 1937, UNM and the Works Projects Administration (WPA), working in cooperation to create an enhanced facility, embarked on a major expansion and renovation project of the Harwood complex. Designed by John Gaw Meem, one of the best known architects of the Southwest, the Harwood addition became one Read more…
Constructed 1870. For the price of one cow and five pesos, Santiago Martinez acquired the one-half acre property in 1864 located less than a block from the Historic Taos Plaza. Actual construction on the property dates to the early 1870’s when the New Mexico Vernacular style building known as the Read more…
Constructed 1997. VETERANS MEMORIAL Dedicated to the memory of all Taos County Veterans who served their country gallantly as true patriots and at the risk of their own lives in order to preserve and protect freedom and democracy in the United States and throughout the world in honor of those Read more…
The Taos Plaza is the historic center of the town of Taos. Once a Spanish fortified walled plaza with houses and businesses, it now has a park with shady trees, park benches, and a gazebo surrounded by retail businesses made of adobe. An anchor of the plaza is the Hotel Read more…
Constructed 1990. Born in Saguache, Colorado, artist and muralist George Chacon inherited his fathers and grandfathers good hands, as he says in a YouTube interview.Since childhood, those hands have gripped crayons, held paintbrushes, and cut through stone and wood. He studied art at Colorado State University and Western Washington University, Read more…
Constructed 1850. After the period of Mexican rule, New Mexico was claimed as a territory for the United States in 1846. President Fillmore established New Mexico as an official territory in 1850, and Taos became a county in 1852. Taos Valley flourished during this period and other cultures found their Read more…
“The acequias of southern Colorado and New Mexico are the oldest water-management institutions in the United States of European origin. These irrigated agro-systems date to the time of Spanish settlement in the northern borderlands of Nueva Espana during the late 16th century with the Juan de Onate colony in 1598 Read more…
Constructed 1936. Closed cinema. Southwest Plaza Taos, NM 87571 Photo by Elmo Baca.