Taos Indian Health Center, 0.3 mile south-southwest of Pueblos Plaza, Taos Pueblo, Taos County, NM

Significance: The Taos Indian Health Center was constructed by the Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, and opened as a hospital in the late 1920s to serve the Pueblo of Taos and Picuris Pueblo. The construction of a hospital on Indian land represented a change in federal Indian health care policy by locating health care facilities on the reservation, thus bringing direct patient care to the people being served. The building itself is architecturally significant for its Pueblo-Spanish styling, departing from the federal government's normal building style for this period, and blending with the Pueblo's traditional building style.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N572
Survey number: HABS NM-177
Building/structure dates: ca. 1925- ca. 1929 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1936 Subsequent Work