Pueblo style preserves the rounded earthen look of pre-1850 Indigenous and Spanish Colonial adobe — soft corners, exposed vigas, flat roof, no milled trim. Territorial style is the 1846–1912 hybrid. It kept the adobe walls but added milled lumber and brick coping along the parapet. It also added Greek Revival or Gothic trim brought west on the Santa Fe Trail. The visible tell is at the windows and parapet. Territorial buildings have crisp white-painted wooden window surrounds with triangular pediments. They also carry a row of fired red brick along the top of the wall. Pueblo style avoids all four. Both forms are codified in the Santa Fe Historic Districts under the 1957 zoning ordinance.
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