yama-bato: Mission Church at Rancho de Taos — northern New Mexico, built circa 1772. Platinum
yama-bato: Mission Church at Rancho de Taos — northern New Mexico, built circa 1772. Platinum print photograph by Laura Gilpin in 1930. Reproduction #: LC-USZC4-3921 (color transparency). Built in 1772 by Spanish missionaries and native Americans, the Mission Church is an amalgam of European and indigenous building traditions. Made of adobe, a brick composed of straw and mud, the walls slope outward to buttress the structure and to fend off the effects of torrential rains. -- source link
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