National Historic Landmark - Raton Pass

National Historic Landmark - Raton Pass

In 1821, Raton Pass was --opened--for wagon traffic to Santa Fe by Capt. William Becknell.

The pass played a crucial role in Kearney's conquest of New Mexico in 1846, and the Colorado Volunteers' staunching of the ...

National Historic Landmark - Rabbit Ears

National Historic Landmark - Rabbit Ears

A double-peaked mountain rising above level plains, this conspicuous landmark guided wagon trains on the Cimarron Cutoff of the Santa Fe Trail across more than thirty miles of the Oklahoma panhandle.

It was the focal point ...

National Historic Landmark - Quarai

National Historic Landmark - Quarai

The ruins here represent an important period in Southwestern history.

Mission La Purisima Concepcion de Cuarac was built in 1629 and abandoned in 1674.

The pueblo and mission here help to document the early period ...

National Historic Landmark - Puye Ruins

National Historic Landmark - Puye Ruins

Established in the late 1200s or early 1300s and abandoned by about 1600, this is among the largest of the prehistoric Indian settlements on the Pajarito Plateau, showing a variety of architectural forms and building ...

National Historic Landmark - Pecos Pueblo

National Historic Landmark - Pecos Pueblo

This sizeable Pueblo community on the edge of the Plains was occupied for over 400 years.

It was important in the history of the Spanish arrival in New Mexico, and the Spanish built and occupied a ...

National Historic Landmark - Palace of the Governors

National Historic Landmark - Palace of the Governors

Erected (1610-12) as the fortress of the royal presidio of Santa Fe, the Palacio Real is the oldest public building built by European settlers in the continental United States.

It served as the residence ...

National Historic Landmark - Georgia O'Keeffe Home and Studio

National Historic Landmark - Georgia O'Keeffe Home and Studio

Georgia O'Keeffe occupies a pivotal, pioneering position in American art.

She created her own style by adapting early modernist tenets to quintessentially American motifs.

Her stark paintings of cattle skulls bleached by the desert ...

National Historic Landmark-NPS Region III Headquarters Building

National Historic Landmark - National Park Service Region III Headquarters Building

The National Park Service's Region III Headquarters Building is a masterpiece of Spanish-Pueblo Revival architecture.

The largest known adobe office building in the United States, it contains an outstanding art collection, ...

National Historic Landmark - Mesilla Plaza

National Historic Landmark - Mesilla Plaza

Mesilla was founded in 1848 by the Mexican Government to bring Mexican citizens from territory recently ceded to the United States into Mexican domain; by the terms of the Gadsden Purchase Treaty (1851), the town ...

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 ...