Couse-Sharp Historic Site’s two-acre campus in the heart the central historic district of Taos includes the former homes and studios of E. I. Couse and J. H. Sharp, two of the American-born, European-trained artists who formed the Taos Society of artists in 1915. Visitors are astonished that such a well-preserved—and charming—complex of period buildings, gardens, furnishings, and associated art collections still exists. Engineering enthusiasts can see a 1936 laboratory and machine shop plus a Kibbey Couse-invented mobile machine shop used in World War II. Our latest addition is the Lunder Research Center, a beautiful state-of-the-art research and museum facility dedicated to the highly influential Taos art colony and its milieu. Through our archives, collections, and programming, Couse-Sharp Historic Site preserves and interprets Taos’s crossroads of cultures. We facilitate research, education, and new perspectives on the early artists of Taos and regional and Indigenous communities in relation to the greater story of the multicultural American West.