Arizona - New Mexico

Feb. 29 Santa Fe: America's newest-oldest capital gives its name to a style of Architecture pecullarly its own; Home of Adobe Building': New Mexican architecture reflects its history and culture, and is used on materials and forms indigenous to the State. First buildings solved by early inhabitants who had lived there for unknown centuries, were of materials of neighbouring deserts and mountains. Walls were either of stone or adobe - which was cast or puddled into place in ralls in stratified layers, which were then finished with smooth coating of adobe inside and out. Roofs were supported by vigan - round logs 6 or 8 inches in diameter, laid across the tops of opposite walls at regular intervals. Over these were put smaller poles at right angles on which long grasses or rushes and small branches were laid closely, and over all was a thick layer of mud. Outside influences were later seen, such as protecting cornicos of brick in ornamental pattern, hand of line stucco. Shutters, slender squared columns, portal parapets and wood trims were added, producing a type similar to Monterey, Caif. style but still fundamentally New Mexican in character. During early 20th century, ancient traditional forms come into their own with realisation that aethetic values meant something as well as being suited to the climate. Today they are adapted to modern aterials and have been called The Santa Fe style to be seen where else in the United States. It is a style traceable in descentnbriken line from aboriginal American sources

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