Taos Historical Sites
- Taos Plaza -- Site
of the original Spanish settlement, and the center of downtown Taos.
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La Loma Plaza -- Off La Loma Street. A natural fortification built in the late
18th century to protect farmers from Indians, now an historic district.
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Governor Bent House and Museum -- Bent Street. Home of the first governor
of the American territory of
New Mexico, and the site where he was killed during the Taos Pueblo Rebellion
of 1847.
- Harwood Foundation Museum -- LeDoux Street. 758-9826. Contains
an extensive collection of paintings by early and modern Taos artists.
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Millicent Rogers Museum -- North of El Prado off U.S. 64. 758-2462.
Exhibits the arts and cultures of Northern New Mexico.
- Kit Carson
Home and Historical Museum -- Kit Carson Road. 758-4741. Exhibits on Kit Carson
and the mountain-man period
of Taos history, guns, textiles, Indian and archeological artifacts.
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Ernest Blumenschein Home and Museum -- Ledoux Street. 758-0330. Large adobe
home of a co-founder of the Taos Society of Artists. Built in the late 1700's,
the museum displays antique furnishings and art of the Blumenschein family
and other early Taos artists.
- Martinez Hacienda -- 2 miles west of
Taos Plaza on N.M. 240. 758-1000. Early Spanish Colonial fort-like building,
with 2 courtyards and 21 rooms,
containing Spanish Colonial furniture and artifacts, a working blacksmith shop,
and exhibits on Spanish culture and history in the Taos area.
- Nicolai
Fechin Institute -- Paseo del Pueblo Norte. 758-1710. Old Taos adobe reconstructed
by Russian artist in the 1920's and 1930's, containing unique hand-carved
woodwork and art exhibits.
- San Francisco de Assisi Church --
Ranchos de Taos. 758-2754. Historic and much-photographed adobe church, containing
a Mystery Painting. Open
to the public for tours and showing of a short film.
- Taos Pueblo --
2 miles north of Taos. 758-9593. Home of the Taos - Tiwa Indians, is the site
of one of the oldest continually inhabited communities in the United States.