Editing Kit Carson (section)

=== Historic preservation ===

Though structures that Carson would have known had been preserved before 1950, full scale historic preservation projects of sites specifically significant for their association with Kit Carson did not begin until 1950s. In 1952, the Masonic Lodge of Taos, which had inherited the Carson home, restored and opened his classic adobe house as the Kit Carson Home and Museum, one representative of the early 19th century architecture and Hispano family setting but significant because of Carson.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.kitcarsonmuseum.org/|title=Kit Carson House & Museum|website=www.kitcarsonmuseum.org|accessdate=September 14, 2021}}</ref> That same year, the state of New Mexico acquired the grave site and established Kit Carson State Park and Memorial Cemetery. The museum emphasized his early career, from around 1843 (when the Carsons bought the home) into the 1850s. Nearby, the former site of his Rayado home, acquired by the Boy Scouts of America, was reconstructed in spirit if not accuracy (no original architectural documents are extant) during the 1950s.<ref>{{cite news |title=Santa Fe New Mexican |date=May 26, 1957}}</ref>