Architectural style · c. 1905–1940 (continuing)
Pueblo Revival
Rounded, earth-colored walls, stepped flat roofs and projecting roof beams, after the pueblos and Spanish missions of New Mexico.
Pueblo Revival imitates the adobe architecture of the Pueblo peoples and the Spanish colonial churches of New Mexico. Walls are thick and rounded at the corners, finished in earth-toned stucco (or real adobe); roofs are flat, behind parapets, with masses stepping back in tiers. Projecting wooden roof beams (vigas) and drain spouts (canales) are characteristic, as are deep-set windows and porches on posts with carved corbels (portales).
Promoted by the University of New Mexico and by the Santa Fe Railway's tourist hotels, and later required in Santa Fe's historic district, it remains the regional style of northern New Mexico.
Where you'll see it: New Mexico above all; also Arizona and southern Colorado.
How to recognize it
- Thick walls with rounded corners and parapets
- Flat roofs with stepped, terraced massing
- Projecting wooden roof beams (vigas)
- Earth-toned stucco or adobe
- Deep-set windows
- Porches (portales) on wooden posts with carved corbels
