Willa Cather and Edith Lewis occupied this small house, “the pink adobe,” across from the “big” house at Mabel and Tony Luhan’s in Taos for two weeks during the summer of 1925 and (probably) 1926. It had five rooms and two kiva fireplaces. They enjoyed staying there so much in the summer of 1925 that Willa asked to return the following summer.
Cather insisted on paying for their room and board, suggesting an arrangement similar to what they had at Whale Cove on the island of Grand Manan. Cather’s insistence was unlike what was true for D.H. and Frieda Lawrence, who lived in the same pink house when they first arrived in Taos in 1922. Mabel had paid their way from India and did her best to make them permanent guests, but they slipped away for a trip to Mexico with Witter Bynner and Spud Johnson and then moved to the Kiowa Ranch.
Their Circles Widen
Hole In The Wall
Eel Brook
Low Tide Seven Days Work
Swallowtail Lighthouse