Last updated: May 14, 2024
Place
Magoffin-Fiske Home Site (La Fonda Parking Garage)
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Quick Facts
Location:
Located on the southweast corner of E San Francisco and Cathedral Pl., Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Significance:
Santa Fe Trail bride Susan Magoffin and her husband, trail trader Samuel, lived here in a flat-roofed, four-room adobe home built before 1836, for five weeks in 1846.
MANAGED BY:
Santa Fe Trail bride Susan Magoffin and her husband, trail trader Samuel, lived here in a flat-roofed, four-room adobe home built before 1836, for five weeks in 1846. Here she continued writing in her diary, published in a 1926 book, Down the Santa Fe Trail & Into Mexico. Santa Fe attorney Eugene Fiske bought the home in 1881 and expanded it. The Fiskes sold the house in 1912. In 1949 it was razed to make way for the La Fonda’s first parking lot.
Site Information
Location (Located on the southweast corner of E San Francisco and Cathedral Pl., Santa Fe, New Mexico.)
This is currently the site of the La Fonda on the Plaza parking garage.
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Santa Fe is the oldest capital city in the US, founded in 1610, and the highest in elevation at 7,000 ft. The city is the historic hub of the southwest, connecting three national historic trails: El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the Santa Fe Trail, and the Old Spanish Trail. This tour leads your from the busy plaza and other major tourist locations to lesser known sites along quiet, old Santa Fe streets.