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Santa Fe Style Homes began as a blend of Hispanic and Native American influences with true adobe homes as the practical construction for the original peoples of the Southwest, the Anasazi. In the days when adobe homes were prevalent, it was a cheaper form to build with, but now the craftsmanship and tradition are harder to find and as a result, more costly.
Higher Standards
Today's Santa Fe Style Homes must have a fireplace or more than one. The style of the curved corner fireplace is called a Kiva fireplace. Most floors in a Santa Fe-style home, however, are made of tile, brick, or some other hard surface. Carpets may be found, but that is not the true Santa Fe-style.
Another feature is the Portal (pronounced Poortaal). These, in essence, are patios that allow the homeowners to extend their home out into the yard facing a beautiful vista of some sort. May through October is portal weather. Dining and relaxing occur out-of-doors during this time of year. Santa Fe Style Homes include nichos. Bancos are the curved, shelf-like area around the fireplace in an adobe home to display once again something of value or importance.
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The Santa Fe Style Home—Unlike No Other
Inspired by the simple adobe structures built by ancient tribes, comfortable, eco-friendly pueblo-style homes are especially practical in dry climates. Traditional Pueblo architecture dates back to the dawn of history; Spanish Colonial Pueblos flourished in the 17th and 18th centuries. Pueblo Revival houses became popular in the early 1900s and are still a favored style in the southwestern regions of the United States. Contact us or call our real estate agency for more information about these unique homes for sale.
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Pueblo-Style Homes
This style of adobe architecture is derived from traditional southwestern Indian pueblos, defined by soft, organic lines, rounded corners, and parapets. Pueblo homes were historically one or two stories and featured small windows, mud roofs, and adobe walls. Today's pueblo homes share much with their ancestors: low doorways, such as vigas, latillas, nichos, canales, and bancos. Modern homes have also been updated with windows, high ceilings, and hard plaster finishes, and feature open floor plans.
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Territorial-Style Homes
Before statehood, the railroad arrived with heavy sawmill equipment. Milled wood moved architecture from simple mud structures to ornate, finished, multi-story buildings. The territorial style features stucco exteriors with sharp-edged parapet walls, often decorated with brick coping. The windows and doors are usually bordered with Victorian-like detail. The interior of these homes is highly finished with sharp corners, milled beams, and wood trim.
High Mountain Pitched Roof-Style Homes
Early settlers resorted to pitched thatch roofs on pueblo-style adobe homes to shed the snow, which in time became corrugated metal roofing. In today's homes, the pitched roofs are covered with iodized raised ridge roofing in bright colors ranging from rust red to turquoise blue.
Built of stone or adobe on a decidedly human scale, the Indian settlements complemented nature by blending into the surrounding landscape. In this way, their architecture reflected not only their harmony with the earth, but their reverence for the wholeness of life as well. The Santa Fe-style of architecture actually goes back more than 1,600 years. Traits such as stark, curving walls and earth-colored masonry can be traced directly to the Pueblo Indians.
The first southwest dwellings were most likely holes dug in the ground by the Pueblo Indians' ancestors, called the Anasazi, a Navajo word meaning "ancient ones." The Anasazi dug these holes, or pit houses, to a depth of 1 to 6 feet. Contact us to speak with a realtor today!
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