The marriage of Pueblo adobe architecture and Spanish building technology was modified again in the 20th Century with the introduction of new “American” innovations and design sensibilities. The so called “Santa Fe style” or Spanish Pueblo Revival was adapted to large public buildings such as the Museum of Fine Arts and La Fonda Hotel in Santa Fe about 1920 and quickly spread to other communities. The Public Works Administration (WPA) adopted the Spanish Pueblo Revival style for many courthouses and public projects.
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Nicolai Fechin House (Taos Art Museum)
North Region: Taos
Constructed 1940. Nicolai Fechin was a supremely talented Russian artist who emigrated to the United States in the early Twentieth Century and ultimately settled in Taos about 1920. Fechin was trained in Russian folk arts and used his skills to create a unique fusion with the New Mexico folk arts Read more…
Old Belen City Hall
Central Region: Belen
Constructed 1937. The original Belen City Hall was completed by the WPA in 1937. The building still belongs to the city, but is no longer in use. With assistance from New Mexico MainStreet, Belen MainStreet recently completed a Facade Squad on the building, painting and repairing the exterior of the Read more…
Old Gallup Post Office
Northwest Region: Gallup
Constructed 1933. Built in 1933 and listed on the state and national historic registers, the blond brick building was constructed as part of the WPA project and still has the original carved beamed ceilings. It exhibits a mix of architectural styles, including Mediterranean, Decorative Brick Commercial, and Spanish Pueblo Revival. Read more…
Old Taos County Courthouse
North Region: Taos
Constructed 1932. The 1932 Spanish-Pueblo Revival style courthouse was built with partial funding from the PWAP and is located on the north side of the Taos plaza. The second floor courtroom was decorated with ten frescoes of subjects related to the use and misuse of the law. The frescos were Read more…
Otero County Administration Building
South Region: Alamogordo
Constructed 1938. The building, which was built in 1938 as a post office in the New Deal project, PWA (Public Works Administration), is the home of a beautiful Peter Hurd mural which is on the front exterior of the building. In Alamogordo, under the Art-in-Architecture program titled, “Sun and Rain”, Read more…
Plaza Theater
North Region: Taos
Constructed 1936. Closed cinema. Southwest Plaza Taos, NM 87571 Photo by Elmo Baca.
The Harwood Museum of Art
North Region: Taos
Constructed 1916. In 1937, UNM and the Works Projects Administration (WPA), working in cooperation to create an enhanced facility, embarked on a major expansion and renovation project of the Harwood complex. Designed by John Gaw Meem, one of the best known architects of the Southwest, the Harwood addition became one Read more…