Georgia O'Keeffe Home and Studio

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1949 (Mission Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The Georgia O'Keeffe Home and Studio is a historic house museum in Abiquiú, New Mexico. From 1943 until her death, it was the principal residence and studio of artist Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986).”
Wikipedia article Georgia O'Keeffe Home and Studio, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 46 National Register listings published here for Rio Arriba County · listed in 1998 · category: Building · built in 1949, Mission Revival architecture, by Maria Chabot · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. O'Keeffe, Georgia, Home and Studio - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Co. Rd. 164, House No. 13, Abiquiu, 87510
When was it listed? August 1998
Category. building
Census division. Rio Chama
When was it built? 1949
Architectural style. Mission Revival architecture
Architect. Maria Chabot
National Register reference number. 98001197 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

20 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Georgia O'Keeffe Home and Studio between 1992 and 2020, burning about 38 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Recreation and ceremony	3
Natural	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Smoking	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
18 July 2008	Natural	1.0 acres	Carson National Forest	PINE CONE
15 June 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Chama District	PADILLA
30 May 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Carson National Forest	RED ROCKS #6 ACF
23 May 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named
22 May 2006	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	not named
20 May 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Santa Fe National Forest	CHAMA
1 May 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	JACK
19 April 1992	Smoking	under an acre	Carson National Forest	not named

Every fire recorded in Rio Arriba County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Georgia O'Keeffe Home and Studio: 1 past producer, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Las Minas Jimmie Prospect	Copper, Silver	Past Producer	1917
Lily Belle	Copper	Prospect
Ra03-001	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Rio Arriba County

Storms near this property

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Abiquiu, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 5 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2014	Flash Flood	Abiquiu	$50,000	Twenty minutes of intense rainfall followed by 4 hours of moderate rainfall caused wash out of County Road 155. A culvert beneath the road could not hold all the water and breached the roadway.
June 2015	Flash Flood	Abiquiu	$10,000	County road 155 washed away and culverts destroyed.
July 2014	Flash Flood	Abiquiu	$5,000	Observer reported the most severe storm at this location in 15 years. A total of 1.28 inches of rain fell in 45 minutes and the main road on their property was ripped apart and culverts destroyed. Additionally, their garden was shredded by hail.
July 1998	Flash Flood	Abiquiu	$5,000	Flash flooding along Arroyo Del Yeso filled roads with mud and clogged the bridge to Ghost Ranch with heavy debris.
July 2012	Flash Flood	Abiquiu	$2,500	County Road 162 near the intersection of U.S. Highway 84, close to Abiquiu, was partially washed away. The culvert was reportedly too small to carry the volume of water generated by the heavy rain and topped the roadway.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Abiquiu	-	A dry thunderstorm produced a brief high wind gust up to 59 mph near Abiquiu.

Every storm recorded in Rio Arriba County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

1 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Tomas Gonzales House	1.2 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98001197 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Rio Arriba County	All 46 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.