| Photo Information |
Copyright: JC Ramos (jramos)
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| Genre: Places |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2007-12-16 |
| Categories: Architecture, Ruins |
| Camera: Canon PowerShot S50 |
| Exposure: f/2.8, 1/500 seconds |
| More Photo Info: [view] |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2007-12-20 23:01 |
| Viewed: 911 |
| Points: 0 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
215 E. De Vargas St.,
Lower Old Santa Fe Trail,
Santa Fe, NM
This old adobe is known as the oldest house in the U.S. and was built over an ancient pueblo that dates back to the 1200s. In fact some of the lower walls show evidence of Pueblo adobe work rather than Spanish Colonial adobe work. The original Spanish section of the oldest house dates back to 1610. Most likely Indian laborers, the same people that built the San Miguel Mission across the street, built it.
In the twentieth century the house was used as a store and curio shop. At one time there was an old Indian mummy sitting in a rocking chair in the back room. Legend has it he used to live in the house during the late 1920s - early 1930s. When someone noticed he hadn't shown up at the mission for a few days the Brothers came looking for him. He had died in the house.
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