What is territorial architecture?

Territorial architecture is the hybrid style that emerged in the New Mexico Territory between 1846 and 1912. It combines Indigenous Pueblo and Spanish Colonial adobe construction with American Greek Revival and Gothic detailing. Settlers brought the trim west along the Santa Fe Trail. The Territorial wall is still adobe brick, but it is topped with a course of fired red brick coping. It is trimmed in milled white-painted wood and given symmetrical massing with double-hung windows and triangular pediments. The form revived in the 1930s as Territorial Revival, codified by architect John Gaw Meem in commercial and government buildings. Los Poblanos in Albuquerque is among the most-cited Territorial Revival landmarks.