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Kit Carson Home - Continued, Page 4
The decision to purchase the house and make the house a place to honor and educate the public about their most famous member was followed, albeit many years later, by the substantial efforts by the Masonic Lodge to further restore and expand the use of the Kit Cason House and related properties for operation as a museum.
Historic Background and Context
The Kit Carson Home and Museum is located at 228 Kit Carson Road in Taos, New Mexico. At the time that Carson owned the property, the road on the south side of the property was called Taos Canyon Road. Most deeds refer to this road as the public street.
The House and Museum properties consist of the original three-room, 21-viga home of Kit Cason and his wife, Josefa, purchased in 1843, and an 1830-1856 structure known as the Romero House. These two historic adobe structures were subsequently connected on the west by a 1951-52 concrete block structure and expanded in 1958, with a "reconstruction" of two rooms of the Romero house, which were all but non-existent.
A rental property was constructed on the adjoining property to the east in 1953. The purpose of this building was to produce a revenue stream to support the efforts of the museum. Portals were added at that time to the courtyard face of the Carson House, to the additions and to the Romero House in 1958.
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