Bernard J. Beimer House | |
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Location | 215 Beimer Ave. Taos, New Mexico |
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Coordinates | 36°25′00″N105°34′18″W / 36.41667°N 105.57167°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | 1920 |
Built by | Beimer, Bernard J. |
NRHP reference No. | 06000156 [1] |
Added to NRHP | March 22, 2006 |
The Bernard J. Beimer House is an architecturally unusual house in Taos, New Mexico. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. [1]
It is a two-story side-gabled house. Whereas much of Taos is built of adobe bricks in Spanish Colonial Revival and similar styles, this house reflects German Fachwerk style and is much like a half-timbered house. Its walls, exterior and interior, are built of wood stud framing and have poured mud in the interstices. [2]
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