Month: February 2003

San Francisco de Asis Church in Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico circa 1920.

“THE OLDEST HOUSE IN U.S.A.”, Santa Fe, New Mexico. This house, across the lane from San Miguel Mission is built of puddled adobe and is believed to be pre-Spanish, built in circa 1200 A.D. in the Pueblo of Analco. This house is the last remnant of that Pueblo that occupied much of the area on the south side of the Santa Fe River.

Mixing mud and straw for adobe bricks in New Mexico. Date Unknown.

A Jacal structure in New Mexico. Date unknown.

Photo of woman in front of house in Las Cruces, New Mexico taken August 6, 1908

Photo of Kit Carson’s adobe home on the Rayado, in Taos, New Mexico c. 1910.

Adobe house where an important treaty between the United States and Mexico was signed. House was (is) located in Hollywood, California. Possibly the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

Photo showing famous Taos Artist W. Herbert (Buck) Dunton outside of his home and Studio in the La Loma section of Taos, New Mexico NM. Mr. Dunton is leaning against the adobe wall that is in front of his place.

Postcard of workers constructing adobe walls in Deming, New Mexico. Cancelled 12-17-1937.

The Adobe House Museum in Hillsboro, Kansas. A typical dwelling erected in 1876 by a Mennonite pioneer families. Seven rooms typically furnished of that period. Walls are mud and straw mixture 18 inches thick. Attached barn contains pieces depicting pioneer and farm practices of that era.