A Colorful History at the Turquoise Bear
DAN CLARK AND HIS PARTNER, David Solem, purchased the nine-room Inn of the Turquoise Bear, in Santa Fe, in 2014. Clark takes seriously his stewardship of this onetime home of poet, essayist, and…
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Category: Where to Stay
Built to Last
Casa Blanca Inn and Suites Built in the 1950s for lumber magnate H. Merrill Taylor in Spanish Colonial Hacienda style and renovated in the early 2000s by the current owners, the nine-room Casa Blanca…
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Back at the Ranch
HIKERS CRESTING THE TOOTH OF TIME see a sprawling white house below the apex of the ridge on the Philmont Scout Ranch. They might wonder why it’s not part of the ranch, which entirely surrounds its…
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Wine and Dine
SARA JO MATHEWS named Prairie Hill Café, the restaurant in Las Vegas’s Plaza Hotel, after the road leading to her family’s ranch. Their beef stars in the Jackpot Cowboy, a triple-layered, nine-ounce…
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Luxurious Lodgings
Sierra Grande Media mogul Ted Turner owns two parcels of land the size of national parks outside Truth or Consequences, and the Sierra Grande retreat is the jumping-off point for explorations of them…
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Hotel Andaluz Shines
ENTER THE HOTEL ANDALUZ'S LOBBY, in downtown Albuquerque, and the “Middle Casbah,” an alcove seating area, just might invite you to lounge a bit while sipping a cocktail near its fish-tank table. But…
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Visit Three Hotels with Hidden History
Eklund Hotel “Around here, the Old West hasn’t died,” says Keith Barras, one of the owners and managers of the Eklund Hotel, in Clayton. Swedish immigrant Carl Eklund opened the inn in 1894, and it…
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Take In the Taos Inn's Adobe Bar
THE TAOS INN'S LOBBY comes by its nickname—“the living room of Taos”—naturally. More than a century ago, it was an open-air plaza with a town well that served as a gathering place. Today that locale…
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Dig Deep at the Black Range Lodge
A "FIT OF NAIVETE" COMPELLED Catherine Wanek to purchase the Black Range Lodge, in Kingston, in 1984. Never did she suspect that what she wanted—a writer’s retreat from Hollywood screenwriting—would…
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Hotels Fit for an Artist
Lundeen Inn of the Arts Lundeen Inn of the Arts, in Las Cruces, has seven artist-themed rooms showcasing notable New Mexico and Native American artists. The soaring great room holds more than 250…
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