After statehood, 20th Century architectural styles were popular through mid-century, but the popularity of the state’s adobe tradition never fully waned. Professional architects such as John Gaw Meem reinterpreted the ancient forms in stucco and concrete, and the Territorial style saw new life and new monumental scale. The Territorial Revival expresses classical forms in a variety of building types, scales, materials, and colors, perhaps most impressively at the State Capitol building in Santa Fe.
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Casa Benavides
North Region: Taos
Constructed 1900. Casa Benavides offers 39 luxury rooms just one half block from the Taos Plaza. The Casa Benavides is ideally located on Kit Carson Road with easy access to local attractions and landmarks such as Kit Carson Park, Mabel Dodge Luhan House, The Couse-Sharp historic site, and a rich Read more…
Couse Pasture
North Region: Taos
Constructed 1930. The Couse pasture and house gardens together interpret open horse pasture lands neat the plaza and also a cultivated garden of one the Taos communities leading art families. Bucolic pastures with magnificent mountain views are common in the Taos valley, but the Couse pasture is distinctive for its Read more…
Deming Custom House
Southwest Region: Deming
Constructed 1889. In the 1840s there was a war raging between Mexico and the United States. The war ended in 1848 but not the dispute over a strip of land called the Mesilla Strip. During that period, a small one room ranchero was built on the site of the Old Read more…
San Miguel County Courthouse
North Region: Las Vegas
Constructed 1940 This structure was built with WPA funding in 1940. — Source “Public Art and Architecture in New Mexico 1933-1943” by Kathryn A. Flynn 500 W. National St. Las Vegas, NM 87701 575-425-9331 photo by Elmo Baca
Sierra County Courthouse
Southwest Region: Truth or Consequences
Constructed 1938. This courthouse, built in 1938, was the only PWA courthouse project to embrace territorial revival style. It was designed by Wilfred Stedman in 1937 when the voters chose to move the county seat from Hillsboro to Hot Springs (later known as Truth of Consequences). — Source: “Public Art Read more…