National Register of Historic Places
John Gaw Meem Architects Office
Santa Fe, Santa Fe County, New Mexico
The record
- Listed
- June 7, 2019
- Type
- Building
- Address
- 1101 Camino De Cruz Blanca, Santa Fe
- County
- Santa Fe
- State
- New Mexico
- Contributing resources
- 1 building
- Coordinates
- 35.67033, -105.92183
- Reference number
- 100004030
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The story
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The John Gaw Meem Architects Office is a building at 1101 Camino De Cruz Blanca in Santa Fe, built in 1930 in the Spanish-Pueblo Revival style by architect John Gaw Meem, and listed in the National Register in 2019.
Why it's listed
It was listed under criteria B and C, with state-level significance in architecture, spanning 1930 to 1967 and reflecting construction in 1930 and 1933. Criterion B ties it to Meem, who worked there, and Criterion C reflects its Spanish-Pueblo Revival design.
Physical character
The walls are hollow-clay tile and white plaster, and the roof is buckskin-color stucco with parapets and canales. Its ceilings are peeled round vigas topped with V-groove decking, with a portal along one side. The building was enlarged in 1933, when its entrance moved west, and again in 1996, when additions increased its footprint by 2,510 square feet.
Historical context
Meem was born in Brazil in 1894, began practicing architecture in 1925, and retired in 1959. Hugo Zehner became partner in 1940 as the firm was renamed, and William Buckley became a full partner in 1956. By 1996 it served as the art building of Santa Fe Preparatory School, with a Digital Media Lab added to expand its visual arts program.