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Taos is a town built mostly of adobe bricks. "Taos Adobe - Old and New" video (4min 41sec). Lou Kohl Morgan narrates a wonderful short video guide about adobes houses - old and new. Lou gives you a tour of 2 Taos houses - old & new, plus a quick insight into adobe bricks.

"I would like to show you two lovely adobe homes in Taos. One is over a hundred years old and perched on the edge of a mesa rim. The other is a modern pueblo style home with its own magnificent views.

"Step back in time with me as we enter the charming Territorial farmhouse in Taos built over a century ago. Look at these beautiful thick interior adobe walls and this beautiful hand azed wood surface. The major source of heat in the old adobes is a kiva fireplace, and this is a traditional example.

Many old Taos dobes have unique and sometimes crazy things like this charming stairway. What a beautiful example of a remodel of an old Taos Territorial Adobe. This is the original wood box and this is oilcloth painted over covering the adobe walls...

Video 2004 by J. R. Ransom. Video Host: Lou Kohl Morgan. Music by Jenny Vincent Trio. J. R. Ransom is president of Taos Music & Art, Inc (TMA), and TMA's Taos MultiMedia Studio produces taosplaza.com as well as many other Taos Web portals. J. R. Ransom and his wife Allyn Rose Ransom founded taosplaza.com in 1999.