It was a home of arts supporter and writer Mabel Dodge Luhan (1879–1962), where she orchestrated one of the most successful artistic salon environments in the early 20th century United States, hosting well-known writers, painters, photographers, and musicians, and nurturing the young Taos art colony.

[2] The Mabel Dodge Luhan House is located near the eastern edge of the town center of Taos, at the end of Morada Lane.

[2] The house was built between 1917 and 1922, using largely traditional Puebloan construction methods, and incorporates into its structure two older buildings.

Her short marriage to painter Maurice Sterne brought her to New Mexico in 1917, where she soon bought the property near Taos, and sought to recreate the salon atmosphere in the budding art colony.

[2] Her endeavour was highly influential, furthering the careers of writers Willa Cather and D.H. Lawrence, artists and photographers including Ansel Adams, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Edward Weston.