Kit Carson House, Historical adobe residence in Taos, United States.

The Kit Carson House is an adobe home in the heart of Taos, New Mexico, built from thick mud-brick walls around a central courtyard. The rooms are furnished with objects from the mid-1800s, showing how the building was used day to day.

Built in 1825, the house was bought in 1843 by Kit Carson after his marriage to Josefa Jaramillo; it stayed the couple's principal home until 1868, though they were away in 1851–54 and 1866–67. It passed through a string of owners until Bent Lodge #42, a Masonic lodge founded by Carson, acquired it in 1910. The house remained in disrepair until the Kit Carson Memorial Foundation was set up in 1952 to restore it.

The house reflects the everyday life of a community where Spanish, Mexican, and Native American ways of living overlapped closely. Walking through the rooms, visitors can notice how this mix shaped the layout and the objects inside.

The house sits close to the central plaza in Taos and is easy to reach on foot from other historic spots nearby. Visiting in the morning gives you time to move through the rooms and the courtyard without feeling rushed.

The guided tour ends not at the house but at Kit Carson Memorial State Park nearby, where Carson and Josefa are buried. The house itself holds a replica of his .50 caliber rifle, a U.S. Army sabre with scabbard, and Josefa's sewing box. The property also appears in Prairie Schooner, Vol. 42 No. 2 (1968), in an article on D. H. Lawrence's Taos ranch.