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- 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- Carlsbad Irrigation Project

National Historical Landmark- Carlsbad Irrigation Project

Carlsbad was one of the most extensive private irrigation projects in the American West, where adequate water supply has always been a concern.

In the 1880s, inhabitants of the Pecos Valley constructed several stone dams to ...

National Historic Landmark- Ernest L. Blumenschein House

National Historical Landmark- Ernest L. Blumenschein House

In 1919, painter Ernest L. Blumenschein purchased this 11-room, single story adobe dating from Spanish times and made it his home and studio.

Blumenschein was co-founder in 1898 of the Taos Art Colony, which became ...

National Historic Landmark- Barrio De Analco Historic District

National Historical Landmark- Barrio De Analco Historic District

First settled in 1620, this barrio is unique because it represents an active working-class neighborhood of Spanish Colonial heritage.

The district contains numerous examples of Spanish-Pueblo architecture, characterized by the adobe construction indigenous to ...

National Historic Landmark- Bandelier CCC Historic District

National Historical Landmark- Bandelier CCC Historic District

Dating from the 1930s, this is the largest collection of CCC-built structures in a National Park area that has not been altered by new structures in the district.

This group of 31 buildings ...

National Historic Landmark- Acoma Pueblo

National Historical Landmark- Acoma Pueblo

Acoma Pueblo, built on top of a giant, craggy mesa, is one of the oldest continuously occupied settlements in the United States.

Founded as early as A.D. 1100, its location made it virtually impregnable in early times. ...

National Historic Landmark- Abo

National Historical Landmark-Abo

Abo is the site of a large, unexcavated Pueblo occupied from late prehistoric times into the historic era.

Abo typifies the period in which acculturation began in the American Southwest. A large mission church of red sandstone ...