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Kit Carson House

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• Address: 113 Kit Carson Rd

• Travel Genus: Sight , Visit
• Sight Category: Museums
• Activity Category: Tour

• As Noted In: 1001 Historic Sites You Must See Before You Die, Quintessence Editions
• As Noted In: National Register of Historic Places, US National Park Service
• As Noted In: US National Historic Landmark, US National Park Service

Kit Carson was a trapper and a mountain man of great renown. He served as an army guide, an Indian Agent and was a highly celebrated Army officer during the Indian Wars. The one-story adobe house, built in 1825, is in the Spanish Colonial style in the shape of a "U" with a front portal and wooden beams. The interior consists of nine rooms, seven of them original, which surround an open patio with a traditional Mexican mud oven and a well. - NPS