San Francisco de Asis Church, Ranchos de Taos

San Francisco de Asis Church is a small mission in Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico. Construction on the church began around 1772 [ [http://www.bartleby.com/69/28/R00728.html Ranchos de Taos. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000 ] ] and was completed in 1815Hooker, Van Dorn. "Centuries of Hands: An Architectural History of St. Francis of Assisi Church", p15. Sunstone Press (1996), ISBN 0865342342.] by Franciscan Fathers and its patron is Saint Francis of Assisi. It is made of adobe as are many of the Spanish missions in New Mexico. It a few miles south of Taos Pueblo and has inspired among the greatest number of depictions of any building in the United States.Charles C. Eldredge (1993). "Georgia O'Keefe: American and Modern", p198. Yale University Press. ISBN 0300055811.] It was the subject of fourFact|date=July 2007 paintings by Georgia O'Keefe, [ [http://www.cartermuseum.org/works-of-art/1971-16 1971.16 | Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas ] ] [ [http://www.phillipscollection.org/american_art/learning/okeeffe-ranchos_learning.htm Georgia O'Keeffe - Learning ] ] and photographs by Ansel Adams and Paul Strand. Georgia O'Keefe described it as, "one of the most beautiful buildings left in the United States by the early Spaniards."

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*Library of Congress, Historic American Buildings Survey / Historic American Engineering Record. Retrieved from HABS/HAER website [http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/hhquery.html] specifically [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=pphhphoto&fileName=nm/nm0000/nm0059/photos/browse.db&action=browse&recNum=0&title2=Mission%20Church%20of%20Ranchos%20de%20Taos,%20Ranchos%20de%20Taos,%20Taos%20County,%20NM&displayType=1&itemLink=D?hh:6:./temp/~pp_kKXM::] on 11 October, 2006