Pueblo Revival architecture

The Pueblo Revival style or Santa Fe style is a regional architectural style of the Southwestern United States, which draws its inspiration from Santa Fe de Nuevo México's traditional Pueblo architecture, the Spanish missions, and Territorial Style. The style developed at the beginning of the 20th century and reached its greatest popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, though it is still commonly used for new buildings. Pueblo style architecture is most prevalent in the state of New Mexico; it is often blended with Territorial Revival architecture.

Hotel Franciscan in Albuquerque, 1943
Painted Desert Inn, a National Historic Landmark in Arizona
Pueblo Revival corbel, hand-carved from ponderosa pine, at the Bandelier National Monument Visitor Center

Features

Pueblo Revival architecture imitates the appearance of traditional adobe Pueblo architecture, though other materials such as brick or concrete are often substituted. If adobe is not used, rounded corners, irregular parapets, and thick, battered walls are used to simulate it. Walls are usually stuccoed and painted in earth tones. Multistory buildings usually employ stepped massing similar to that seen at Taos Pueblo. Roofs are always flat. Common features of the Pueblo Revival style include projecting wooden roof beams or vigas, which sometimes serve no structural purpose, "corbels", curved—often stylized—beam supports and latillas, which are peeled branches or strips of wood laid across the tops of vigas to create a foundation (usually supporting dirt or clay) for a roof.[1][2]

History
detail of adobe architecture, La Fonda, Santa Fe, NM
View of the La Fonda hotel from the southwest, built in 1922 and remodeled in 1929

The regional architecture from which the Pueblo style draws its inspiration is primarily found in New Mexico and Arizona, but also Colorado. Although the revival movement is most closely associated with the state of New Mexico, many early examples were built in other western states. In the 1890s, architect A. C. Schweinfurth incorporated Pueblo features into a number of his buildings in California.[3] Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter's Hopi House (1904) in Grand Canyon National Park drew heavily on the Pueblo style. In 1908, architect Isaac Rapp used the San Estevan Del Rey Mission Church as a template for his Colorado Supply Company warehouse in Morley, Colorado.[4]

The Pueblo Revival style made its first appearance in New Mexico at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, where UNM president William G. Tight adopted the style for a number of building projects during his tenure. The best known of these was the 1908 remodeling of Hodgin Hall, which survives as well as the slightly earlier Estufa, both designed by architect Edward Buxton Cristy under Tight's supervision. Other pioneering buildings that no longer exist were a heating plant and two of the university's dormitories, Hokona Hall and Kwataka Hall, also designed by Cristy and built in 1906.[5] Nearly all subsequent university buildings have also employed the Pueblo style, albeit in increasingly loose interpretations.

The other stronghold of Pueblo-style architecture is Santa Fe, where it was popularized in the 1920s and 1930s by a group of artists and architects seeking to establish a unique regional identity. In 1957, a committee led by John Gaw Meem drafted Santa Fe "H" Historical District Regulations Ordinance No. 1957-18,[6] commonly known as the Historical Zoning Ordinance. This ordinance mandated the use of the "Old Santa Fe Style," which encompassed "so-called Pueblo, Pueblo-Spanish or Spanish-Indian and Territorial styles," on all new buildings in central Santa Fe.[7] This ordinance remains in effect, meaning the Pueblo style continues to predominate.

Pueblo-style houses are still frequently constructed in Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and elsewhere. Updated versions of the style have also been used for newer commercial and public buildings such as the Albuquerque International Sunport terminal (1966) and the newer UNM buildings.

Notable buildings

See also
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Notes
  1. ^ Whiffen (1969), pp. 229–233
  2. ^ Whiffen (1969), pp. 229–233
  3. ^ Hooker (2000)
  4. ^ Harris (1997), pp. 3–6

Notes
  1. Virginia Grattan. Mary Colter Builder Upon the Red Earth, 1980.
  2. Arnold Berke, Mary Colter Architect of the Southwest, 2002.
  3. California, Berkeley Daily Planet, Berkeley. "East Bay Then and Now: A Viennese Epicure in the Athens of the West. Category: Home & Garden Columns from The Berkeley Daily Planet". berkeleydailyplanet.com. Retrieved August 23, 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. Twitchell, Ralph Emerson (January 1, 1915). Old Santa Fe: A Magazine of History, Archaeology, Genealogy and Biography. Old Santa Fe Press. pp. 298–299.
  5. Terry Gugliotta (December 2006). "Campus Heritage Preservation Survey, University of New Mexico" (PDF). Albuquerque, NM: The University of New Mexico.
  6. Santa Fe (N.M.). City Planning Department (January 1, 1957). "H" historical district regulations: ordinance no. 1957-18. Santa Fe, N.M.: The Dept. OCLC 63271542.
  7. "Preservation law, Santa Fe". University of Florida Digital Collection. p. 167. Retrieved August 23, 2015.
  8. Paul Weideman (August 21, 2015). ""Beautiful and distinctive": A history of MoCNA's building". The New Mexican.
  9. "Hotel Franciscan". Albuquerque Historical Society.
  10. "Franciscan Hotel, Albuquerque, New Mexico". Henry C. Trost Historical Organization. 1990.
  11. "Bandelier National Monument CCC Historic District". National Park Service. 2001.
  12. "White Sands Historic District". National Park Service. April 7, 2017.
  13. Shari Morrison (August–September 2018). "Western Landmark: The Inn and Spa at Loretto". Western Art & Architecture.
  14. Malcolm Pynn. "The Eldorado Hotel Story". Santa Fe Always On Line.

References
  • Harris, Richard (1997). "National Trust Guide: Santa Fe. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 0-471-17443-2
  • Hooker, Van Dorn (2000). "Only in New Mexico: An Architectural History of the University of New Mexico, the First Century 1889–1989. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 0-8263-2135-6
  • Whiffen, Marcus (1969). American Architecture Since 1780. Cambridge: MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-23034-8
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