TAOS Walking Map of Historical Architectural Styles
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A special thanks to Gayla Bechtol, AIA of Gayla Bechtol Architect, Santa Fe, NM. She provided the content, overall design, and photographs. The defi - nitions of the styles are taken from the following documents: The Town of Taos HOZ code, Taos Valley Architecture 16.16.220.5 and NMDOT Technical Series 2010-1 Roadside Architecture and Objects in New Mexico by Laurel Wallace, December 2011 and NM Historic Preservation Division HCPI Instruction Manuals from 1980 TAOS and 10/25/2013. The Honorable Dan Barrone, Mayor Walking Map Rick Bellis, Town Manager Town of Taos Council of Historical Council Member Judy Cantu Council Member Nathaniel Evans Council Member Darien Fernandez Architectural Council Member Fritz Hahn Town of Taos, NM Lynda Perry, Grants Director Styles Louis Fineberg, Planning and Zoning Director 400 Camino de la Placita John Miller, Senior Planner Taos, NM 87571 Karina Armijo, Marketing Director/ 575-758-2002 Graphic Design taos.org / taosgov.com Copyright 2016 Town of Taos This project has been funded in part by a grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Historic Preservation Fund administered by the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, Historic Pres- ervation Division. The project received federal fi nancial assistance for the identifi cation, protection, and/or re- habilitation of historic properties and cultural resources in the State of New Mexico. 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It also contains many different styles of architecture; beginning with the Taos Pueblo (Classical, pre-1275, Lund Street and Pueblo IV Period, 1275-1598) believed Brooks Street Seco Lane to be constructed around 1350 through the Montano Lane Maria Lane Amadeo Lane Martinez Lane subsequent Pueblo V and Spanish Colonial Town Hall Drive Period, 1598-1848, then Hispanic / New Mex- Paseo del Pueblo Norte ican Vernacular Style popular locally from Las Milpas 1780-1910; the TerritorialHinde Style, Place 1846-1912, the Cleveland Lane Folk Territorial (Folk Victorian) Style, 1880- Hispanic Vernacular 1780 - 1910 Folk Victorian / Queen Anne 1880 - 1910 Spanish Pueblo Revival 1908 to present 1910, followed Martyr’sby the Lane Spanish Pueblo Revival (1908 toCamino de la Placitapresent) and Territorial Revival (1945 Manzanares Street to the present). OtherBent historic Street styles include the Don Fernando Street Valverde Street Bungalow/Craftsman Style (1907-1930) and Morada Lane Juanita Lane Mission Revival Style(1899-1930). La Loma Street N. Plaza Paseo del Pueblo Norte Rosarita Lane S. Plaza Kit Carson Road San Antonio Street Camino de la PlacitaThere are subtle visual clues contained in the Dragoon Lane elements of each building leading to a histor- Ranchitos Road ical understanding of architectural forms and Roberts Lane Ledoux Street Comanchestyles. This map will locate and describe those De Teves Lane Quesnel Street Ranchitos Road Ojitos Road styles in and around Taos Plaza. Folk Territorial 1880 - 1910 Spanish Pueblo Revival 1938 to present Territorial Revival 1945 to present Spruce Lane Las Cruces Road Salazar Road Hatchery Road De Vargas Lane Paseo del Pueblo Sur Rivali Lane Calle Esiquel TAOS WALKING MAP LEGEND Valverde Commons Drive Beimer Street Bungalow / Craftsman/ Craftsman Camino del Pueblo Folk Territorial Territorial Theodora Street Folk Territorial Territorial / S-P / S-PRevival Revival Montecito Lane Camino de la Placita Folk Territorial Territorial / Territorial / Territorial Revival Revival Hispanic Vernacular Vernacular Hispanic Vernacular Vernacular / S-P / RevivalS-P Revival Lund Street Brooks Street Hispanic Vernacular Vernacular / Territorial / Territorial Seco Lane Montano Lane Mission Revival Revival Style Amadeo Lane Martinez Lane Maria Lane Mission Revival / Bungalow Town Hall Drive Mission / Bungalow Style Trujillo Lane New Mexico Vernacular Paseo del Pueblo Norte New Mexico Vernacular Las Milpas NorthernNew Mexico New Mexico / S-P /Revival S-P Revival Hinde Place Cleveland Lane Queen Anne 7 Queen Anne Martyr’s Lane SpanishS-P Revival Pueblo Revival Camino de la Placita S-P Revival Revival / Mission/ Mission Style Manzanares Street Bent Street S-P Revival Revival / Territorial/ Territorial / N. New/ N. Mexico New Mexico Geronimo Lane Don Fernando Street 4 Valverde Street Territorial Morada Lane Territorial Juanita Lane 6 La Loma Street N. Plaza Territorial Revival Paseo del Pueblo Norte Territorial Revival Rosarita Lane S. Plaza 1 Kit Carson Road Territorial / New/ New Mexico Mexico Vernacular Vernacular San Antonio Street Camino de la Placita La Lomita Road Dragoon Lane Ranchitos Road Roberts Lane 2 Ledoux Street Comanche De Teves Lane Valverde Street Quesnel Street 5 3 Ribak Ranchitos Road Ojitos Road Spruce Lane Las Cruces Road Salazar Road Hatchery Road De Vargas Lane Paseo del Pueblo Sur Penitente Lane Rivali Lane Calle Esiquel Valverde Commons Drive Beimer Street Camino del Pueblo Theodora Street Montecito Lane Camino de la Placita Lund Street Brooks Street Seco Lane Montano Lane Amadeo Lane Martinez Lane Maria Lane Town Hall Drive Trujillo Lane Paseo del Pueblo Norte Las Milpas Hinde Place Cleveland Lane Martyr’s Lane Camino de la Placita Taos Plaza Manzanares Street Bent Street 1 Geronimo Lane Don Fernando Street Classical and Pueblo IV Period Styles, pre-1598 to the present, include the architec- ture of the Puebloan peoples and is the foundation for the predominant architectural style Valverde Street in New Mexico, the Spanish Pueblo Revival Style. The original Pueblo Style was derived from construction using available materials, stone, adobe, wood logs and twigs, and Moradaearth. Lane Juanita Lane The modular room, limited in size by the characteristics of these materials, was multiplied to create multi-storied villages and contiguous linear “L” shaped, rectangular and “u” shaped La Loma Street N. Plaza structures. The pueblo people constructed their dwellings using a form of puddled mud Paseo del Pueblo Norte blocks or stone laid in mud mortar. When the Spaniards introduced sun dried mud brick, or Rosarita Lane adobe; this new construction material spread quickly. The newer villages, promulgated by the Spaniard Colonists and missionaries, were sometimes built on top of earlier dwellings and S. Plaza Territorial Revival Kit Carson Road sacred spaces. 120 Camino de la Placita Elements: Massive room blocks, fl at earth roofs supported by wood logs, vigas La Lomita Road San Antonio Street Camino de la Placita protruding throughDragoon the Lane wall plane, stepped wall buttresses, limited fenestration, small tiny window openings, low door openings, multi-light casement and double-hung openings, stepped back second-story terraces, adobe, rubble mud plaster and exposed wood lintels Ranchitos Road Roberts Lane Ledoux Street Folk Territorial 114 Padre Martinez Comanche De Teves Lane Valverde Street Quesnel Street Ribak Ranchitos Road Ojitos Road Spruce Lane Las Cruces Road Salazar Road Hatchery Road De Vargas Lane Spanish Pueblo Revival Spanish Pueblo Revival Spanish Pueblo Revival / Mission Hispanic Verncular / Territorial Hispanic Verncular / Territorial Territorial Revival Folk Territorial Spanish Pueblo Revival 121 North Plaza 105 West Plaza 108 South Plaza 208 Ranchitos 208 Ranchitos 102 Padre Martinez 106-108 Padre Martinez 104 Padre Martinez Paseo del Pueblo Sur Penitente Lane Rivali Lane Calle Esiquel Valverde Commons Drive Beimer Street Camino del Pueblo Theodora Street Montecito Lane Camino de la Placita Lund Street Brooks Street Seco Lane Montano Lane Amadeo Lane Martinez Lane Maria Lane Town Hall Drive Trujillo Lane Paseo del Pueblo Norte Las Milpas Hinde Place Cleveland Lane Martyr’s Lane Camino de la Placita Manzanares Street Bent Street Geronimo Lane Don Fernando Street Valverde Street Morada Lane Juanita Lane La Loma Street N. Plaza Paseo del Pueblo Norte Rosarita Lane Ledoux Street / Ranchitos Road S. Plaza Kit Carson Road La Lomita Road San Antonio Street Camino de la Placita Pueblo V Period/Spanish Colonial Period/Pueblo Spanish DragoonStyle Lane1598-1848 was 2 brought to New Mexico by the Spanish colonists traveling from Mexico to the new territory of New Mexico. The basic building technology of stone, log and adobe walls covered by fl at roofs of wood and dirt were adapted from the Pueblo designs. However, metal tools introduced by the colonists made simple wood ornamentation, wood doors and windows, and Ranchitos