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Kit Carson House

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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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Location
  
Kit Carson Ave., Taos, New Mexico

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.

References

Kit Carson House Wikipedia