In which New Mexico village is Georgia O'Keeffe's famous adobe home located?

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Georgia O'Keeffe’s famous adobe home and studio is located in Abiquiu, New Mexico.

O'Keeffe began using the Abiquiu property in the late 1940s and made it her primary home by 1949. The house includes a distinctive walled courtyard and a black door set into an adobe wall, a feature she repeatedly painted and photographed. Its architecture and surrounding landscape became part of her creative world.

The property had been abandoned when O'Keeffe first saw it, but she recognized its potential and arranged for its restoration. The home provided a quieter setting than New York and offered direct access to the cliffs, mesas, and desert light that shaped her later work.

Abiquiu is not the same as Santa Fe, although both are strongly linked to O'Keeffe. She lived in Abiquiu and later spent time in Santa Fe, where the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum opened after her death. The house is preserved as a historic site associated with her life and studio practice.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026

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