Anybody with NM photos? (Santa Fe, Wagon Mound: gated, cost, vs.)

[New2AZ]

I've attached some pictures taken in and around Springer, NM.

[Jara]

Originally Posted by New2AZ

I've attached some pictures taken in and around Springer, NM.

I enjoyed looking at the last picture of the 2 story home with the mansard roof and the balcony. What an art study.

[berncohomes]

I think this pretty much sums up this thread

[vegaspilgrim]

I-25 through northern New Mexico:

It was raining HARD when we entered the state. You can just barely make out the yellow sign:




































Just kidding, that last one was in southern Colorado.

[TKO]

Originally Posted by Jara

I enjoyed looking at the last picture of the 2 story home with the mansard roof and the balcony. What an art study.

There's a style of house often called New Mexico Farm House in the northern part of the state that I really like. Basically a rectangle two story in earth tone stucco with white trim around the windows and a silverish metal roof. You see a lot of them on the back road from Bernalillo to Pena Blanca. I always liked the way they look.

[Jara]

Thank-You TKO for telling me even more history of NM. I want so bad to just take a driving tour all through NM. It's going to happen. When I seen this picture I think my jaw dropped to my knees. This is a wonderful study of Second Empire style mansard roof 1850-1870. In France during that time period, houses were taxed by floors. the area with the dormer windows in the mansard roof was a little icing on the cake. It wasn't taxed. If houses could talk. The person must of been wealthy when he purchased or had such a "Lady Grace" built.

[TKO]

Originally Posted by Jara

Thank-You TKO for telling me even more history of NM. I want so bad to just take a driving tour all through NM. It's going to happen. When I seen this picture I think my jaw dropped to my knees. This is a wonderful study of Second Empire style mansard roof 1850-1870. In France during that time period, houses were taxed by floors. the area with the dormer windows in the mansard roof was a little icing on the cake. It wasn't taxed. If houses could talk. The person must of been wealthy when he purchased or had such a "Lady Grace" built.

You're welcome and thank you. Here's a picture of the type of house I was talking about. Nothing fancy but somehow, despite the metal roof, or maybe because of it, it fits up there.

The drive on the back road from Bernalillo to Pena Blanca is really a nice drive. I'm partial to the southern part of the state for the most part but there was an awful lot of beauty up north too.

[Jara]

This house is interesting TKO, how the log supports are use for the porch and the metal roof. Each window with a little wood decoration it looks like inlay. Love the color of the house. The wood between the porch roof and main roof was left bare no stucco is this for a reason? Got that written down in my journal about the back road TKO, that you like to drive. Another place I'd like to visit is the town of Springer. When history isn't preserved...We have nothing to share.

[TKO]

Jara,

Just curious, is that a spanish "J" i.e. pronounced like an H? I don't know about the lack of stucco above the portal in this particular house it was just the most representative pic I could find using google image. It's not like a part of the style although I don't think it detracts from this house. It seem to match the wood on the eves.

[Cathy4017]

Originally Posted by TKO

You're welcome and thank you. Here's a picture of the type of house I was talking about. Nothing fancy but somehow, despite the metal roof, or maybe because of it, it fits up there.

The drive on the back road from Bernalillo to Pena Blanca is really a nice drive. I'm partial to the southern part of the state for the most part but there was an awful lot of beauty up north too.

I've seen that style, and I love it. It reminds me of New Mexico "Territorial"...and I'm beginning to wonder if those aren't two names for the same style.