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De Vargas Street House

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The De Vargas Street House, often called the Oldest House, is a historic adobe dwelling at 215 East De Vargas Street in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Its exact construction date is unknown, but the bulk of the building is believed to date from the Spanish colonial period after 1610, and one archaeological study found sections of its walls to be characteristic of earlier Pueblo construction. The two-story adobe structure has an original first floor and a second floor reconstructed in the 1920s, along with rooms built in the Spanish colonial style with corner fireplaces. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and the New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties in 1968 as a contributing property of the Barrio De Analco Historic District, and today it is restored and open to visitors as a tourist attraction. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Building TypeSourced to the subject's own account
Historic house 2
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
Santa Fe, United States 3
Completed Year
1646 1
Classification
Standing Status
Reconstructed 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)Sourced to the subject's own account
House 2
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Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

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1. De Vargas Street House (Wikipedia)
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Vargas_Street_House, lead definition
    The De Vargas Street House, often referred to as the Oldest House, is a historic building in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which is often said to be one of the oldest buildings in United States.
  • Wikipedia categories
    Category:Houses completed in 1646
  • standing status determination
    The two-story adobe structure has an original first floor and a second floor reconstructed in the 1920s, along with rooms built in the Spanish colonial style with corner fireplaces.
  • In Style: Pueblo Architecture, Introduction
    One archaeological study also concluded that some sections of the walls are characteristic of Pueblo architecture and may be pre-Spanish in origin.
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2. De Vargas Street House (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Historic house)
Quote, Wikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Historic house)
Wikidata item Q5244785, instance of (P31): historic house
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3. De Vargas Street House (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Santa Fe, United States
Quote, Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Santa Fe, United States
Wikidata item Q5244785, property P131/P17 (location): Santa Fe, United States
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Wikidata: De Vargas Street House
Wikidata Q5244785, class allow-list match (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926 resolve_missing)View the Source
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