Kit Carson Home and Museum (Kit Carson Rd. +1 505 758 4741. Adm. fee) Carson was 33 when he married 14-year-old Josefa Jaramillo and gave her this adobe house as a wedding gift. Period rooms, artifacts, and documents trace his career from mountain man to dime-novel hero.Blumenschein Home and Museum (222 Ledoux St. +1 505 758 0505. Adm. fee) The queen of Taos “Art Society” adobes was purchased in 1919 and enlarged by society co-founder Ernest Blumenschein and wife, Mary, who decorated it with handmade Taos furniture and their own artwork.
La Hacienda de Don Antonio Severina Martinez (2 miles [3.2 kilometers] S of the plaza on Ranchitos Rd. +1 505 758 1000. Adm. fee) The fortresslike adobe, built in the early 19th century, is the state’s best preserved late Spanish colonial home.
Church of San Francisco de Asís (4 miles [6.4 kilometers] S via New Mexico 68. +1 505 758 2754. Adm. fee) The massively buttressed apse is a Southwest image made famous by painter Georgia O’Keeffe and photographer Ansel Adams.
