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Taos Indian Health Center, 0.3 mile south-southwest of Pueblos Plaza, Taos Pueblo, Taos County, NM
Location0.3 mile south-southwest of Pueblos Plaza,
Taos%2BPueblo, NM
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS NM-177
Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (N572).
Building/structure dates:
1925 initial construction
Building/structure dates:
1936 subsequent work
Significance: The Taos Indian Health Center was constructed by the Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, and opened as a hospital in the late 1920s to serve the Pueblo of Taos and Picuris Pueblo. The construction of a hospital on Indian land represented a change in federal Indian health care policy by locating health care facilities on the reservation, thus bringing direct patient care to the people being served. The building itself is architecturally significant for its Pueblo-Spanish styling, departing from the federal government's normal building style for this period, and blending with the Pueblo's traditional building style.
Subjects
MedicineAdobe BuildingsIndians Of North America
Related Names
Department Of The Interior, Office Of Indian Affai
Mayers, Murray, & Phillip
Brown, Glynn I.
Glynn Brown, AIA, Architects & Planners
Trujillo, Ben, Field Team
Gittings, Kirk, Photographer
Dodge, William A., Historian
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
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