[ Hacienda los Molinos, Puebla: fortified wall and stairway to tower of 16th-century residence. ]
[ Hacienda de Matanzas, Jalisco: 18th-century chapel, residence, ]
[ Hacienda Quinta Carolina, Chihuahua: main residence. ]
[ Hacienda Mendocina, Puebla: 18th-century guest home on island in small man-made lake. ]
Foreword
James A. Michener
Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Miami
I first became aware of the high artistic merit of Paul Bartlett's work on the classic haciendas of Old Mexico when I came upon an exhibition in Texas in 1968. His drawings, sketches, and photographs evoked so effectively the historic buildings I had known when working in Mexico that I wrote to the architect-artist to inform him of my pleasure.
Subsequently, I saw examples of his devotion to the great haciendas with their strong Mexican-Spanish coloration, and always I enjoyed his reminders of what life in colonial Mexico must have been like for the favored classes.