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Maria Rosa Villalpando. María Rosa Villalpando (also María Rosa Villapando, Marie Rose Vildepane, and Marie Rose Sale dit Lajoie ), born c. 1738, Taos, New Mexico; died July 27, 1830, St. Louis, Missouri, was a New Mexican woman captured by the Comanche in 1760. She was sold or traded to the Pawnee where she met and married a French trader ...
Taos [a] is a town in Taos County in the north-central region of New Mexico in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.Initially founded in 1615, it was intermittently occupied until its formal establishment in 1795 by Nuevo México Governor Fernando Chacón to act as fortified plaza and trading outpost for the neighboring Native American Taos Pueblo (the town's namesake) and Hispano communities ...
June 22, 1979. The Nicolai Fechin House in Taos, New Mexico, is the historic home of the Russian artist Nicolai Fechin, his wife Alexandra and daughter Eya. After purchasing the house in 1927, he spent several years enlarging and modifying the two-story adobe structure, for instance, enlarging the porch and adding and widening windows to take ...
The Mabel Dodge Luhan House, also known as the Big House, is a historic house at 240 Morada Lane in Taos, New Mexico, United States. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1991. [2] [3] It is now used as a hotel and conference center. It was a home of arts supporter and writer Mabel Dodge Luhan (1879–1962), where she orchestrated ...
October 2, 1978. Designated NMSRCP. March 21, 1969. Ranchos de Taos Plaza is a historic district in Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico, about four miles south of the town of Taos, New Mexico. There are 21 buildings over 84 acres in the historic district, [2] including the San Francisco de Assisi Mission Church, a U.S. National Historic Landmark. [1]
La Loma Plaza Historic District. / 36.40639°N 105.58056°W / 36.40639; -105.58056. The La Loma Plaza Historic District is a historic neighborhood in Taos, New Mexico that was listed as a National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [ 1]
Severino Martinez built a flourishing mercantile business trading goods from Northern New Mexico, allowing him to send [citation needed] his son Antonio José Martínez to study for the priesthood in Durango, Mexico. Antonio José was a spiritual leader in Taos from 1826 to 1867. Severino lived at the hacienda until his death in 1827.
December 21, 1965 [2] Designated CP. July 8, 1982. The Ernest L. Blumenschein House is a historic house museum and art gallery at 222 Ledoux Street in Taos, New Mexico. It was a home of painter Ernest L. Blumenschein (1874-1960), [3] a co-founder of the Taos Society of Artists and one of the Taos Six. It was declared a National Historic ...