New Mexico History
Acoma Pueblo’s Ancient Church
Built on a 350 foot sandstone bluff mesa, Acoma Pueblo has been in existence since at least 1150 A.D. Charles F. Lummis, the ethnologist and
April 5, 2024
Built on a 350 foot sandstone bluff mesa, Acoma Pueblo has been in existence since at least 1150 A.D. Charles F. Lummis, the ethnologist and
I took this photo this morning in the courtyard of the Rainbow Man. It features an artist’s wire rendition of the roadrunner, New Mexico’s state
The Santuario de Guadalupe in Santa Fe, built in 1777, is the oldest sanctuary to the Madonna in the United States. The church has three-foot-thick
Archbishop Jean Baptiste Lamy brought four Sisters of Charity to Santa Fe. They came from Cincinnati, traveling by boat, train and stagecoach to open St.
The elite Brown Moor School all-girls school opened in Santa Fe in 1931. At Brown Moor students from well-to-do families from the East sent their
The Laboratory of Anthropology at Museum Hill in Santa Fe has part of the collection of The North American Indian. Published at the beginning of
The Mission Church of San Augustine at Isleta Pueblo pictured here between 1880 and 1890. The original church began around 1613. Reconstruction of the church
Padre José M. Gallegos became New Mexico’s first Hispanic delegate elected to Congress in 1853. The house he built on Washington Avenue in the late
This winter photo of the Santa Fe Plaza in the mid 1940s is by my dear friend Robert H. Martin. I was fortunate to have
Back in the mid-19th century the economic growth for Santa Fe was dependent on the coming of the railroad. In 1860, the Atchison Topeka &