Area less than one acre NRHP Reference # 66000948 Opened 1868 | Built 1868 (1868) Designated NHL May 23, 1963 Added to NRHP 15 October 1966 | |
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Similar Nicholai Fechin House, American Museum of Western, Nedra Matteucci Galleries, Stark Museum of Art, Harwood Museum of Art | ||
Kit Carson House was a home of frontiersman Kit Carson in Taos, New Mexico, United States. It is operated now as a house museum. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1963.
The building is an example of territorial and Spanish Colonial architecture. Open to the public, it is operated by the Taos Masonic Lodge.
Kit Carson, who died in Colorado, was buried in Kit Carson Park and Historic Cemetery in Taos. The 19 acre park is 1 1/2 blocks north of the Taos Plaza on Paseo Del Pueblo Norte. Aside from the cemetery of noteworthy residents of Taos, it is a park and picnic areas with facilities for walking, tennis, basketball, soccer and jogging.
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