Mable Dodge Luhan was the most prominent socialite in Taos in the early 20th century. Her Native American husband remodeled a four room adobe house into a 22 room landmark..

1. Mable Dodge
Luhan House

2. Originally a four
room adobe the
house was
transformed
beginning in 1918
by Mable’s
Pueblan native
husband & a crew
in a traditional
adobe style.
Under Tony
Luhan’s direction
the house was
expanded to 22
rooms. Mable
insisted on a 3rd
floor solarium.

3. Traditional New Mexican fireplace in the living room

4. Living Room

5. The Rainbow
Room like
most rooms
had a
traditional
fireplace.

6. Mable Dodge Luhan and
husband Tony
brought quite a salon of
famous people to their
home in Taos.
Among them Willa Cather,
D.H. Lawrence, Ansel
Adams, Paul Strand,
Aldous Huxley, Carl Jung,
and of course Georgia
O’Keefe.
I like to imagine them
having the same
courtyard view.

7. Mable’s Pigeon Houses