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Adobe Houses

Taos Puebo outside Taos, New Mexico, is considered to be the oldest continuously community in the United States of America. The buildings are actually many individual houses built side by side and in layers of no common walls or connecting doorways. The building are built entirely of adobe and are believe to be well over 1,000 years old. The buildings are made entirely of adobe with the walls several feet thick and the interiors coated with washes of white earth to keep the rooms bright.

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Uploaded on July 5, 2009
Taken on June 7, 2009