While living in taos, mabel dodge luhan invited artists and writers to new mexico, but what else did she do to new mexico?

When Mabel arrived in Santa Fe, she found the atmosphere too confining and insisted that she and Sterne go to Taos. She felt an immediate attraction: “My world broke in two right then, and I entered into the second half, a new world.” Mabel rented a place in January 1918. Drawn to Taos Pueblo, within weeks she met and fell in love with Antonio Luhan, a Taos Pueblo Indian. In a dream Mabel had before arriving in Taos, she had seen Sterne’s face turn into that of an Indian. The dream proved prophetic: Tony replaced Maurice in her affections. (Mabel sent Maurice back to New York, and in 1923 married Tony, her fourth and final husband.) In May 1918 Tony encouraged Mabel to buy 12 acres of beautiful meadow land. By the following year he had designed and helped build a four-room adobe which over time expanded to seventeen rooms. Now ready to receive visitors, Mabel welcomed the first of her many famous guests, writer and activist Mary Austin in March 1919. Some of the others who stayed at the Mabel Dodge House included painters, sculptors and photographers John Marin, Georgia O’Keeffe, Ansel Adams and Laura Gilpin; dance choreographer Martha Graham; anthropologists John Collier and Elsie Clews Parsons, and writers Willa Cather, Aldous Huxley, and D. H. Lawrence.

its main object was the establishment of "settlement houses" in poor urban areas, in which volunteer middle-class "settlement workers" would live, hoping to share knowledge and culture with, and alleviate the poverty of, their low-income neighbors.