Territorial Style

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Territorial architecture featured square columns, dentils and window and door trim

Territorial Style was an

US state. Following the increase of its popularity in the 1930s and 1940s, it became referred to as the Territorial Revival style, which became another popular building style alongside New Mexico's Pueblo Revival
style.

Vernacular

Main article: New Mexico vernacular
Oldest surviving Territorial house in Santa Fe

A vernacular subgroup, from 1860 to 1935, of the Territorial Style is known as the Folk Territorial, Folk Carpenter, and Spanish Folk Territorial. The style was found "particularly in Northern New Mexico", and consisted of applied wood

Gothic details of the Spanish missions in New Mexico, added to the building styles of the Pueblo architecture the Northern New Mexico adobe building construction style.[3]

Later development by Anglo-Americans

When the Americans, under General

Mexican territory than the first view of this town."[5] The city of Santa Fe did not inspire any more admiration, "one traveler likened it to 'a dilapidated brick kiln or a prairie dog town."[6]

Soon "increasing numbers of

Greek Revival feel to the vernacular architecture that they found in New Mexico.[6][8]

Back porch, Canyon Road, Santa Fe

The Anglos did three things to the

dentils
in the courses.

Vernacular or Folk Territorial style house in Española, New Mexico

To further simulate a Greek Revival appearance the Anglos replaced the round tree trunk

bases
.

Finally the Anglos introduced the

pitched roof and the material to produce them. The ternplate roof was a metal one, made in strips and composed of an alloy of tin and lead. Manufactured in the East, the strips were designed to be soldered together, producing a roof much longer lasting and much less leaky than the flat roofs that were commonly used.[8]

Reintroduction

The style remained in use until 1900. It came back into use in 1930 in the form of Territorial Revival architecture.

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-313-32805-3
    . Retrieved February 16, 2021.
  2. ^ Bunting, Bainbridge, ‘’Early Architecture in New Mexico’’, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque 1976 p. 88
  3. ^ New Mexico State Historic Preservation Office guidelines of architectural styles in the New Mexico. P. 28
  4. ISBN 0-8263-1690-5
    .
  5. ISBN 0-8263-1698-0. Archived from the original
    on 2002-10-25.
  6. ^
    ISBN 0826317464
    .
  7. ISBN 0-403-02181-2
    .
  8. ^ a b c Conron and Lent (1979). "The Architecture of Santa Fe: A Survey of Styles". New Mexico Architecture: 14–15.
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