Casa San Ysidro: The Gutierrez Minge House

Casa's Plazuela

Photograph by Aaron Gardner

Quick Facts

Location:

973 Old Church Road Corrales, NM 87048

Significance:

Casa San Ysidro is a historic house museum that features a renovated Territorial Period Greek Revival house built around 1875 by the Gutiérrez family and a speculative recreation of a 19th century rancho constructed by the Dr. Ward Alan and Shirley Jolly Minge. The Minge collection exhibits salvaged architecture, furniture, religious art, tools, Hispanic and Pueblo weavings and pottery from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.

Designation:

State Historic Site, Certified Site

MANAGED BY:

City of Albuquerque: Site Manager - Aaron Gardner, Director - Andrew Connors

Amenities

3 listed

Benches/Seating, Historical/Interpretive Information/Exhibits, Restroom

Casa demonstrates 19th century life along El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro through an 1875 home and structural additions from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. The Minge collection interprets trade, work, travel along El Camino Real.  

The Gutiérrez/Minge House is a charming historic house museum in Corrales, New Mexico. A satellite of the Albuquerque Museum operated jointly with the Village of Corrales, New Mexico, with support from Sandoval County and the State of New Mexico Historic Preservation Division, and affectionately known as “Casa,” the property is home to one of the most comprehensive collections of New Mexican art and furnishings.

Like many historic properties in New Mexico, Casa San Ysidro’s history and construction is delightfully complicated. Casa consists of four main components:

 

• Territorial Period Greek Revival rancho built around 1875 by Jesús María Gutiérrez and renovated by Dr. Ward Alan Minge and his wife Shirley Jolly Minge
• Additional adobe rooms designed and hand built by the Minges around a traditional eighteenth- to early nineteenth-century-style plazuela using structural parts from significant at-risk historical buildings
• Re-created mid- to late nineteenth-century corral surrounding a historic barn and cabins moved to the property by the Minges
• Heritage field to the north of the rancho, protected from development by a conservation easement.

Casa San Ysidro may be the only historic property in the state where the collections, as well as the structures, are listed on the State Register of Cultural Properties. The Minge Collection includes architectural elements, furniture, religious art, household tools and hardware, jewelry, Hispanic and Pueblo weavings and pottery, a transportation collection, and historic photographs.

Site Information 

Location (973 Old Church Road Corrales, NM 87048)

Located at the edge of the irrigated Rio Grande Valley in Corrales, New Mexico, the Gutierrez/Minge House is a rural setting surrounded by fields, orchards, the village cemetery, a 19th century church, a large agricultural field, and a few houses. The property features a traditional adobe house, an open courtyard plazuela where a kitchen garden is in seasonal bloom, and a walled in Corral that holds a barn, cabins, a large stable, and blacksmith shop. The property offers feelings of peacefulness, tranquility, and reflection.

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Casa San Ysidro: The Gutiérrez/Minge House is a historic house museum in Corrales, New Mexico. Affectionately known as “Casa,” the property is home to one of the most comprehensive collections of New Mexican art and furnishings, offering a look at life in the 1800s along El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro. Information on fees, seasonal hours, and scheduling a guided tour of the property can be found on the City of Albuquerque website, at cabq.gov.

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