National Historic Landmark - Mabel Dodge Luhan House

National Historic Landmark - Mabel Dodge Luhan House

This was the home of Mabel Ganson Evans Dodge Stern Luhan (1879-1962), an important paton of the arts.

For 40 years, Mabel Dodge Luhan nurtured the famous artistic community that centered on her Taos ...

National Historic Landmark - Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory

National Historic Landmark - Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory

Founded January 1, 1943, on the Pajarito Plateau of the Jemez Mountains for the purpose of developing an instrument of war--the nuclear fission bomb--Los Alamos continues to be a center for research on ...

National Historic Landmark - Lincoln Historic District

National Historic Landmark - Lincoln Historic District

This is one of the best preserved of the cow towns that sprang up along the cattleman's frontier in the years following the Civil War.

To it drifted cowboys, bad men, gunfighters, rustlers, soldiers, and ...

National Historic Landmark- Las Trampas Historic District

National Historical Landmark- Las Trampas Historic District

First settled in 1751 by 12 Spanish families from Santa Fe, Las Trampas flourished despite Comanche and Apache raids.

The village, a Spanish-American agricultural community, preserves significant elements of its 18th-century heritage in appearance and ...

National Historic Landmark- Hawikuh

National Historical Landmark- Hawikuh

Established in the 1200s and abandoned in 1680, the Zuni pueblo of Hawikuh, largest of the Cities of Cibola, was the first pueblo seen by Spanish explorers.

In 1539, the Black scout Estevan became the first non-Indian to ...

National Historic Landmark- Glorieta Pass Battlefield

National Historical Landmark- Glorieta Pass Battlefield

In February 1862, a Confederate brigade of 2,500 Texans marched up the Rio Grande Valley, with the intention of driving through Albuquerque and Santa Fe, and onto Denver; 1,300 Federal soldiers moved to intercept them.

The ...

National Historic Landmark- Fort Bayard Historic District

National Historical Landmark-Fort Bayard Historic District

Established as an army post on August 21, 1866, by troops of Company B, 25th U.S. Colored Infantry under the command of Lt. James M. Kerr to protect the area of Silver City until 1899.

Buffalo ...

National Historic Landmark- Ernie Pyle House

National Historical Landmark- Ernie Pyle House

Ernie Pyle was probably America's most widely read and certainly best loved war correspondent during World War II.

Often on or near the front lines, he helped people on the home front maintain their ...

National Historic Landmark- El Santuario De Chimayo

National Historical Landmark- El Santuario De Chimayo

Completed in 1816, this is a very well preserved, unrestored example of a small adobe church, notable for its original decorations, including numerous superb religious paintings.

National Historic Landmark- Kit Carson House

National Historical Landmark-Kit Carson House

From 1843 until his death, this was the home of Christopher Kit Carson (1809-1868), American frontiersman and legendary hero of the Old West.

A contemporary who knew him well once said that he was -first in every ...