THEMED ▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼tour ▼▼ A ▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼stroll through time at the Taos museums of Taos oyo Hondo artist and his family were alive. It beautifully Text by Steve Fuhlendorf TRAFFIC SIGNAL El Prado illustrates the lifestyle of Taos artists in the U.S. Highw Taos Mountain 1 Background 64 ay 64 Casino Grande Millicent Rogers Museum Rd. 64 first half of the 20th century. (One hour) for your tour Bridge 9 .S.S. 285 Millicent Rogers Information: 505-758-0505 or Paseo del Pueblo Norte he history of the Taos Valley can nicipal Museum www. taoshistoricmuseums.com be interpreted through artifacts nicipalrt 1 ort  5. The Taos Art left by the many diverse Mabel Dodge Museum and

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Blueberry Hill Road Hill Blueberry Office Montecito that have called it home. Strong Library Fechin House 16 Fire Dept.Montaño19 Brooks St. evidence suggests that as far back Town Hall/Offices17 Camino de la PlacitaGarcía St. 5 227 Paseo del Pueblo Norte 18 FechinTaos Civic Art Museum Morada Ln. as 9,000 years, the ancestors of today’s Pueblo Center 13 Institute/and Fechin T Taos Elementary Police Museum House Civic Plaza Dr. School 20 Hinde Kit Carson Park etween 1927 and 1933, Russian artist Indians, known as the Anasazi, or ancient 41 22 & Cemetery Don Fernando Pool 21 Civic Plaza Dr. Gov. Bent Museum Martyrs Gov. Ln. 23 Nicolai Fechin built the Fechin House, ones, lived here. The Town of Taos itself is Bent Bent St. Bent St. 2 TaosTaos CommunityCommunity Enos García Stables Art Auditorium Roberts Don Museum 11 Gallery School Fernando Kit Carson Museum which now houses a museum that is more than 400 years old, reaching back to the 42 10 Las Cruces TAOS Kit Carson Rd. B 4 Spanish exploration and settlement of New PLAZA Kit Carson unique, even for Taos. Fechin filled the home Harwood GuadalupePlazaPlaza 3 Museum Museum Padre Ln. 3 with his own woodcarvings; crafting furni- Mexico. Taos is considered by many to be the ManzanaresManzanares ending point of El Camino Real (The Royal Upper RanchitosUpper Ranchitos Road Road La Loma Ledoux Quesnel St. ture, doors, windows and corbels. The Taos Plaza 5 Blumenschein Harwood12 7 Home & Museum MontoyaMontoya Art Museum has beautifully renovated the Road). More recently, the many ethnic groups Museum BurchBurch 64 Los Pandos DolanDolan Siler Siler LiebertLiebert that have populated the rest of the United 4 VigilVigil property, retaining and incorporating the 240 6 SalazarSalazar many detailed architectural features. Regular States have also gained a foothold in North Tewa County Cañon 25Courthouse exhibitions are hosted in the house by the Central , adding to the rich cul- La Posta Complex Los Pandos La Posta Albright Taos Art Museum. (One hour) tural heritage represented in the Taos muse- 2 40 The Taos Recycling Center Herdner Cervantes News Lower Ranchitos Rd. 39 Information: 505-758-2690 ums. Step back into the past as you tour these HaciendaHacienda de de Camino de la Merced Cruz Alta

loslos MartínezMartínez Department 24 Witt 29 Bertha GusdorfGusdorf museums and experience the daily lives, hist- Cottam Rd. of Motor Vehicles, 26 or www.taosartmuseum.org 8 Labor Department U.S. Forest27Bureau of Department of Service Human Services Taos County 28 34 Land ory, art and of local residents ranging Economic Development Paseo del C Management illill RoadRoad Corporation 6. Harwood Museum T from nearly forgotten civilizations to recent 4. The Blumenschein of Art arrivals. For more information on hours of style left in the American Southwest. Built in 238 Ledoux Street 1804, many believe this trading center was Home and Museum operation and special events taking place at 222 Ledoux Street the museums go to www.taoschamber.com. the end of El Camino Real (The Royal Road) inding up our stroll through Taos from Mexico. Today the hacienda’s 21 rooms, history, we visit the second oldest 1. Millicent Rogers he Blumenschein Home and Museum Museum surrounding two courtyards, provide the brings us to the early 20th century in Wart museum in the state, the Uni- visitor with a rare glimpse of the rugged our stroll through Taos history. In the versity of New Mexico’s Harwood Museum of 1504 Millicent Rogers Road T frontier life of the early 1800’s. (One hour) autumn of 1898, a fortuitous accident result- Art. It was founded in 1923 and has been he Millicent Rogers Museum is a great Information: 505-758-0505 or ed in Taos becoming a great American art operated by UNM since 1936. Its many gal- place to begin your stroll through www.taoshistoricmuseums.com colony. Two young American artists, just leries span the spectrum of arts in Taos. They Ttime. Named for art patron Millicent 3. Kit Carson Home returned from studying in Paris, were travel- range from the Hispanic Traditions Gallery, Rogers, who settled in Taos in 1947, this and Museum ing from Denver to northern Mexico on a with its remarkable collection of retablos ( on wood), to the works of the Taos museum contains the core of one of Ameri- 113 Kit Carson Road sketching trip when their surrey wheel broke ca’s foremost Southwestern arts and design on a mountainous road north of Taos. Dur- Moderns and notable 20th century artists. A collections. It has umping forward about 40 years, the Kit ing the ensuing delay, Ernest L. Blumenschein room is devoted to the works of the late ■ FOR SUMMER/FALL grown to include Carson Home and Museum contains a and Bert G. Phillips fell in love with the spec- contemporary abstract Agnes Martin, who EVENTS GO TO portion of Carson’s original home. In made her home in Taos. Pieces by Larry Bell www.taoschamber.com traditional and con- J tacular landscape, radiant light and remark- temporary Hispanic 1843, he purchased the large adobe house as able cultures of Taos. Blumen- and Ken Price bring us to the present. Lec- religious and domestic arts, pottery, paint- a wedding present for his bride, Maria Josefa schein and Phillips were later tures and docent tours supplement the muse- ings, photography and graphics, plus a wide Jaramillo, a member of a very prominent instrumental in establishing um’s changing exhibits. (One hour) range of arts and crafts from the many Taos family. The museum features inter- the famous Taos Society of Information: 505-758-9826 cultures of northern New Mexico. (One pretive tours with reenactments by an- Artists. The museum is or www.harwoodmuseum.org hour) cestors of Kit himself. Artifacts and exhib- maintained much as it was Information: 505-758-2462 its illustrate Carson’s life story and tell about when the or www.millicentrogers.org his family and the character of frontier life. Other historical exhibits depict the Native 2. La Hacienda American and Hispanic cultures of de los Martínez Northern New Mexico. (Two hours) Lower Ranchitos Road Information: 505-758-4945 or a Hacienda de los Martínez is one of www.kitcarsonhome.com the few late Spanish Colonial “Great Watch traditional crafting at the LHouses” in the northern New Mexico annual Folk Life Festival at the Millicent Rogers Museum.

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