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Millicent and Mabel's Bed and Breakfast in Taos, New Mexico is in a historic adobe farmhouse.
We offer fabulous, full breakfasts and fantastic, panoramic views of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
A real Taos experience with every stay, guaranteed!
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A bit of history ...
Mabel Dodge Luhan was born in 1879 in New York State. She came to Taos in 1918. While in New York, she held “salons” where the most cutting edge artists, writers, and thinkers of her day came to discuss currents ideas and events and to party.
 Once Mabel came to Taos, she settled here for the rest of her life. She bought a small adobe house adjacent to the Pueblo and bit by bit expanded it into a grand, multistoried house which is now called the Mabel Dodge Luhan House.
In addition to her own home, she had numerous other homes built around her to house her many famous visitors and guests. Some of the most famous who visited her included Georgia O’Keefe, Ansel Adams, Willa Cather, and her partner, Edith Lewis, Jung, D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda. She wrote many books. Her fourth husband was Tony Lujan, a Taos Indian. She died in Taos in 1962.
Millicent Rogers was born in 1902. She was an heiress to the Standard Oil fortune. She travelled extensively and was many times listed as one of America’s ten best dressed women. She came to Taos in 1947.
M illicent adopted the fashion of the locale where she resided but always added her own personal flair. So in Taos, she donned a velvet blouse, moccasins, and a broomstick skirt in the fashion of Navajo women. She was an astute collector of local art, especially art made by Native Americans. She was fascinated by fashion and design, illustrated children’s books and designed jewelry herself. Much of her wonderful collection can be seen today in the Millicent Rogers Museum in Taos. She died in Taos in 1953.
Mabel and Millicent knew each other and lived in Taos at the same time. They have no known association with this house.
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