The imposing Hacienda San José Huejotzingo is near the city of Puebla in the state of Puebla. Its stark one-story red brick, white brick façade faces a lane of dying elm and willow. The residence measures 170 feet across the front. At each corner there is an ornamental tower. The house encloses two patios. Destroyed by revolutionaries, its chapel and storage areas are roofless, but the residential rooms have been reconditioned. They are filled with _recuerdos_ (mementos): incunabula, antique firearms, a suit of Italian armor, oil paintings, Aztec figures, charro spurs, leather chests, colonial tables and chairs. In the dining room are tall ecclesiastical wooden candelabra, carved cedar chairs, monogrammed chests, pre-Columbian objects, colonial pottery, and old dishes. Modern Tonalá pottery ornaments a nineteenth-century buffet. Throughout the residence the floors are red tile. The central patio has a 5-foot limestone statue of St. Joseph, carved in 1624. It stands near a wall tile that reads: _Margarita Barrados, died June 3, 1871_. A stone plaque of a conquistador on horseback, in primitive style, decorates another wall. The property--a corn, wheat, and cattle estate dating from Cortesian days--is owned by Juan Matienzo, who has made a hobby of reconstructing his ancestral home. Few other haciendas have Popocatépetl's 18,000-foot peak looming behind. [Illustration: Hacienda de San José Huejotzingo, Puebla: 16th-century stone bas relief, 3 feet x 5 feet, unearthed in garden.] [Illustration: Hacienda de San Francisco, Jalisco: residence.] [Illustration: Hacienda de Sodzil, Yucatán: narrow-gauge railway passenger car drawn by mule or horse] [Illustration: Hacienda Yaxcopoíl, Yucatán: residence. Note narrow-gauge railroad car.] [Illustration: Hacienda de los Morales, D.F.: spinning wheel in residence patio.] [Illustration: Hacienda de Bianca, Oaxaca: patio] San Martín Rinconada, a feudal hacienda, is halfway between Puebla and Jalapa on the Jalapa route. The buildings are enclosed in a compound. The protective walls, 30 feet high, are in good condition--mellowed by age. Extensive cornfields surround the compound, which is about one half-block square. An intricate grilled gateway opens to a plateresque church. The church clock keeps time, and the stone sundial by the corral also keeps time, hacienda time. Behind the church, a windowless chapel, with double doors for light and air, contains five mauled wooden desks, dusty benches of adzed wood, and a cracked blackboard. This was once a school.