Pueblo Revival Architecture with Christine Mather

Pueblo Revival Architecture

Part of the Santa Fe’s Colorful Legacy lecture series, author and architectural historian Christine Mather presented on Pueblo Revival architecture on Sunday, July 1, 2018 from 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm at the St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

The completed construction of what is now called the New Mexico Museum of Art in 1917 was among the most significant events in the last hundred years of Santa Fe’s history. The building features a Pueblo Revival style; rooted in concepts of Hispanic and Pueblo architecture, specifically as seen in the Mission churches, this architectural approach developed at the turn of the 20th century and reached its greatest popularity in the 1920s and 1930s. It is still commonly used for new buildings in New Mexico. The Museum of Art was constructed in the era of Edgar Lee Hewett’s leadership, the co-founder of SAR. The SAR administration building, located on the estate known as “El Delirio”, former home of Elizabeth and Martha White, is also of the Pueblo Revival style.

In conjunction with the the Museum of Art, SAR invited Mather to present a talk exploring this history through the influential figures of the era, the struggles to identify New Mexico’s unique architectural heritage, and the impact of the Museum of Art building upon the community.

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