The Bond House

The state's register prints Bond's origin as Cañada; the panel has it right. He came from Canada, born in Quebec in 1863, and joined his brother George in business here. The fortune ran through the partido system: Bond advanced flocks of sheep to Hispano herders, who repaid him in raw wool, which he sold in the East with wool bought from other growers. By 1914 the business reached Albuquerque and Grants. Critics charged him with monopoly, overgrazing and the exploitation of the herders who carried the debt.

What the plaque says

Official Scenic Historical Marker The Bond House Frank Bond (1863-1945), prominent Española merchant, came from Canada in 1882. In 1887 Bond married May Anna Caffal of Pueblo, Colorado and built the home. The house grew from a two-room adobe to this large struc- ture. Acquired by the city in 1957, the building is used as a museum today.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• El Santuario de Chimayó — 8.4 mi
  A small adobe shrine on the High Road to Taos, built around 1816 over earth that pilgrims still carry away in hope of healing.
• Fuller Lodge — 14 mi
  The upright-log dining hall of a boys' ranch school, which fed and housed the Manhattan Project after the Army bought the school in 1942.
• Bandelier National Monument — 18 mi
  Rooms carved into soft volcanic tuff in Frijoles Canyon, named for a Swiss scholar who was led there in 1880 by a man from Cochiti Pueblo.
• Palace of the Governors — 23 mi
  The long adobe on the north side of the Santa Fe plaza, called the oldest public building in continuous use in the country, though its own founding date is in dispute.

More markers nearby

• Pablita Velarde, Tse Tsan, Golden Dawn — 1.5 mi
• Pueblo of Santa Clara — 1.5 mi
• Española Valley — 1.7 mi
• Santa Cruz de la Cañada / Santa Cruz Plaza on the Camino Real — 2.0 mi