Pueblo Revival Architecture

Pueblo Revival, also called Santa Fe style, is a regional architectural movement of the American Southwest that draws on traditional Pueblo adobe construction, Spanish colonial mission buildings and the Territorial style, emerging in the early twentieth century and reaching peak popularity in the 1920s and 1930s. Its buildings mimic traditional adobe pueblo construction using adobe, brick or concrete with rounded corners and thick, flat-roofed, earth-toned stuccoed walls, projecting wooden roof beams called vigas, curved beam supports called corbels, and peeled wood roof strips called latillas, often massed in stepped multi-story forms. Edward Buxton Cristy designed pioneering University of New Mexico buildings from 1906 to 1908, Isaac Rapp designed the New Mexico Museum of Art in 1917 and La Fonda Hotel in 1922 in Santa Fe, and John Gaw Meem helped standardize the style through Santa Fe's 1957 Historical Zoning Ordinance, which mandated the Old Santa Fe style for development in the city center. Other landmark examples include Mary Colter's 1904 Hopi House at the Grand Canyon and the Zimmerman Library at the University of New Mexico, completed in 1938.