Architecture, Art, Design, and Culture using of mud, clay, soil, dirt & dust.
The Temple Block is a ten acre square, encompassed by a solid stone and adobe wall, 12′ high and 3′ thick, with large gates on each of the 4 sides. Within the walls are the Great Mormon Temple Tabernacle, Assembly Hall, Bureau of Information, Museum and the First House built in Utah, which is also constructed of adobe.
Adobe House in Santa Barbara, California. Date Unknown.
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.