Santa Fe architecture is most often called Pueblo Revival or Spanish Pueblo Revival. Santa Fe style is a common informal name for the same form. The variant with whitewashed milled trim, brick coping, and Classical pediments is Territorial Revival. Both are codified under the 1957 Santa Fe Historic Districts zoning ordinance. The ordinance restricts new downtown construction to one of the two registers. Tourism Santa Fe and the National Park Service catalog the style as a deliberate twentieth-century revival of Indigenous Puebloan and Spanish Colonial forms. Earth-toned stucco, flat roofs, projecting vigas, and soft corners define it. Architect John Gaw Meem popularized the form from 1905 through the 1940s.
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