Los Luceros: New Mexico’s Morning Star

Description

Author: Wallis, Michael  (1945-)

Publisher: Museum of New Mexico Press

Pub Date: 2018

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Book: Good to Very Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Printed boards.  Dust Jacket: Good to Very Good.  NOT price clipped (no price indicated).   Very light edge and corner wear.

Notes: The quintessential New Mexican “estate”–“a 5,700-square-foot, eighteenth-century, Territorial-style adobe hacienda, which was renovated by the Cabot Foundation in 2004…In addition to the hacienda and a visitor center complex, the property also includes three residences, an eighteenth-century chapel, the original village jail, numerous farm buildings, apple orchards, and irrigated pasture and bosque adjacent to the Rio Grande.” on 150 acres near Alcalde, New Mexico.  Los Luceros is the final remnant of the original 50,000 acre Sebastian Martin Serrano Spanish land grant.  Owned and/or cared for over time by Mary Cabot Wheelwright (Wheelwright Museum), Maria Chabot, and Charles Collier (the eldest son of John Collier, and brother of John Collier Jr.).  There’s a boatload of New Mexico history here.  Beautiful photography by Gene Peach.