We took a tour around central Santa Fe today. It’s a little hard to get good pictures from a moving vehicle, but at least it was open-air, so I didn’t have windows to contend with. Some of the striking things about Santa Fe are the architectural styles, and the sculptures seen all over.

The buildings are limited in core historic districts by the building codes to primarily Pueblo Style and Territorial Style. The buildings are also limited in height, so you won’t see any skyscrapers.

These are a couple of Pueblo Style homes.

Distinctive characteristics of Territorial Style buildings are white columns or woodwork, and brick trim around the top.

The type of fence on this house is called a Coyote fence.

There are other styles (mostly grandfathered in) but the overwhelming majority are these styles.

Most buildings are now made with modern materials and covered with stucco, made to look like adobe, but here is an example of an adobe wall, using methods in existence for hundreds of years.

I like the way the Pueblo Style embeds wood elements directly into the walls.

The Canyon Drive area has around 100 art galleries including many with sculptures, but there are many sculptures scattered around the city. These are some on the State Capitol grounds.

Here is another sculptures we liked at a Canyon Drive gallery.

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