We try to keep this list of historic house museums for New Mexico current, but it is best to check directly with the museums for their hours and other information.
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Two well preserved turn of the century homes house a historical museum and art gallery. Read More
In 1962 Helen Greene Blumenschein gave the family’s home and furnishings as a gift to the community of Taos and the Kit Carson Historic Museums (now the Taos Historic Museums). The museum celebrates the lives and art of Ernest L. Blumenschein, Mary Shepherd Greene Blumenschein and their daughter Helen. It also commemorates the formation of the Taos Society of… Read More
La Hacienda de los Martinez is one of the few northern New Mexico style, late Spanish Colonial period "Great Houses"" remaining in the American Southwest. Built in 1804 by Severino Martin (later changed to Martinez) Read More
Frontiersman Kit Carson lived here from 1843 to 1868. Rooms are furnished in period. Read More
Housed in the restored 1881 Mansard/Italianate H.B Ailman House, the museum collection resource materials include some 20,000 objects relating to the peoples and history of southwest New Mexico. Read More
The Villa Philmonte is Spanish Mediterranean in style with arches, a double courtyard, red tile roofs, etc. It was the summer home of Waite and Genevieve Phillips who gave it, along with 127,500 acres of land, to the Boy Scouts of America in 1941. The Villa (28,000 sq. ft. in size) sits at the foot of the Rocky Mountains… Read More