Constructed 2005. As an educator and publisher, Padre Martinez established the first co-educational primary school in Taos in 1826, and in 1833 he established a college preparatory Latin school for prospective native New Mexican seminarians. Realizing the American invasion of New Mexico was immanent; he expanded his curriculum to include Read more…
Constructed 1932. The 1932 Spanish-Pueblo Revival style courthouse was built with partial funding from the PWAP and is located on the north side of the Taos plaza. The second floor courtroom was decorated with ten frescoes of subjects related to the use and misuse of the law. The frescos were Read more…
Constructed 1940. Nicolai Fechin was a supremely talented Russian artist who emigrated to the United States in the early Twentieth Century and ultimately settled in Taos about 1920. Fechin was trained in Russian folk arts and used his skills to create a unique fusion with the New Mexico folk arts Read more…
Constructed 1918. Mabel Ganson Evans Dodge Sterne Luhan, an author and friend of prominent artists and intellectuals, was born in New York in 1879. She was well-known in the New York art scene, holding salons for artists and writers, before moving to Santa Fe in 1917 to join her third Read more…
Constructed 1870. La Loma Plaza was one of the first settlements in the Taos area, established in the 1870s by settlers of the Don Fernando de Taos land grant. This plaza was built as an enclosure of homes with common walls, creating a defensive style plaza for the inhabitants. Most Read more…
The plaza of Mora is an undeveloped space just north of St. Gertrude’s parish in the heart of the village. The plaza is used by the parish as a parking lot, but plans are underway to redevelop the modest square for community uses. Background history of Mora: Hispanic settlers had Read more…
Constructed 1900 Mora was founded in 1835 after a land grant was awarded to settlers by the Mexican government. The land grant was called “Santa Gertrudis de Mora†thereby establishing St. Gertrude as the patron saint of the fledgling village. Mora residents rebelled against the new American regime in 1847 Read more…
Constructed 1935. Formerly known as the Chief Theater, the Mora movie theater was housed within a business block built by John Hanosh in the heart of the village across the street from the historic Mora County Courthouse. The Hanosh complex included a mercantile store and small upstairs hotel. The community Read more…
Constructed 1956 In 1956 the rose garden was started at the Fuller Lodge by members of the Los Alamos Garden Club. At that time there was no cemetery, so rose bushes were planted in memory of those who died in Los Alamos. The deceased were buried elsewhere. The garden club Read more…
Today a memorial stands at the site of the Ranch School Ice House. During WWII, the nuclear core of the “Gadget” (the prototype atomic bomb) was assembled here and then transported to Trinity Site, 220 miles south near Socorro, NM. It was successfully detonated on July 16, 1945. During the Read more…