Note 44 — The Architecture of the Moradas
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The "Hall of Everyday Life in the American Past" in the Museum of History and Technology (Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.) displays an interior typical of a Spanish-New Mexican adobe house of about 1800.
[45] George Kubler, The Religious Architecture of New Mexico (Colorado Springs, 1940), p. viii.
[46] Bainbridge Bunting, Taos Adobes (Santa Fe, 1964), P. 54.
[47] L-plan moradas are pictured by Woodward [see ftn. 13] in a 1925 photograph at San Mateo, a different morada from that illustrated in Charles F. Lummis, Land of Poco Tiempo (New York, 1897), as well as in another Woodward photograph [see ftn. 13] taken on the road to Chimayo. L. B. Prince, Spanish Mission Churches of New Mexico (Cedar Rapids, 1915), shows an L-plan morada near Las Vegas. Was the L-plan house an unconscious recall of the more secure structure that completely enclosed a placita?
[48] Bunting, p. 56. After 1960 the Arroyo Hondo morada became the private residence of Larry Franks.
[49] AASF, Loose Documents, Mission, 1829 (May 27).
[50] Kubler, Religious Architecture, p. 103.
[51] George Kubler and Martin Soria, The Art and Architecture of Spain and Portugal and Their American Dominions, 1500 to 1800 (Baltimore, 1959), pp. 3, 64, 74.
[52] E. Boyd, interview, April 1966. Building date of about 1780 usually is given for the present church. Boyd, however, states that documents in AASF support the tree-ring dates given in Kubler. Religious Architecture, p. 121, as 1816±10.