Santa Fe's signature style is Pueblo Revival, also called Santa Fe style. The city has required it inside the Historic Districts since the 1957 zoning ordinance. The form combines Indigenous Puebloan and Spanish Colonial features. Earth-toned stucco walls, flat roofs behind battered parapets, projecting wood vigas, and deeply recessed casement windows define the look. A secondary style, Territorial Revival, also appears throughout the city. It adds whitewashed milled trim, brick coping along the parapet, and Greek Revival pediments above doors. The 1957 Santa Fe Plan was drafted partly by architect John Gaw Meem. It locks downtown new builds to one of these two registers.
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