Historical Marker

Los Luceros Hacienda

Los Luceros was the headquarters of Sebastían Martín Serrano’s 1703 land grant, which ran five miles along the Rio Grande and 18 miles east to the peaks of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Martín planted an extensive apple orchard that survives today on a former Tewa agricultural site. With Casa Grande—a rare two-story adobe with a double wraparound veranda—a chapel, jailhouse, Victorian cottage, and guesthouse, Los Luceros is one of a few surviving territorial haciendas in New Mexico. The Rio Arriba County Courthouse from 1846 to 1854, Wheelwright Museum founder Mary Cabot Wheelwright bought the dilapidated property in 1923 and remodeled it into a retreat for artists and writers of the period. .