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| Location | Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico map | ||||
| Date | 1772 to 1816 timeline | ||||
| Building Type | church | ||||
| Construction System | masonry, adobe with timber rafters | ||||
| Climate | desert | ||||
| Context | rural | ||||
| Style | Mission Precursor to American Southwestern style | ||||
| Notes | simple earth-tamped geometry | ||||
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| Discussion | San Francisco de Asis Commentary
"It is understandable why the apse of this mission church has been so often photographed and painted: it proclaims geometric satisfaction mixed with naive forthrightness. That what we see today is, in a measure, fortuitous does not diminish the impact: San Francisco's tamped-earth buttresses are partially ad hoc additions to sustain walls endangered by floods and erosion." "The Latin Cross main body of San Francisco, measuring 35 feet wide by 125 feet long, is of small interest: the towers are amateurish and the entry out of scale. The interior, with two modest windows in thick masonry walls plus a roof transept, receives only a subdued natural light, in provocative contrast to the clinically illuminated, wood-framed New England meeting houses of the same period. Hot bright climate versus cool, cloudy—Spanish Catholicism versus New England Congregationalism." — G. E. Kidder Smith. Looking at Architecture. p116. | ||||
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Sources on San Francisco de Asis
Howard Davis, University of Oregon. Slides from photographer's collection. PCD.2260.1012.1702.100. PCD.2260.1012.1702.102. PCD.2260.1012.1702.101. G. E. Kidder Smith. Looking at Architecture. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Publishers, 1990. ISBN 0-8109-3556-2. LC 90-30728. NA200.S57 1990. discussion, p116. close-up photo, p117. George Kubler. The Religious Architecture of New Mexico. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1973. LC 72-86823. NA5230.N6K8 1973. plan drawing at window level, f13, p36. Historical American Buildings Survey, 36 NM 3, sheet 3. plan drawing at ceiling level, f13, p36. Historical American Buildings Survey, 36 NM 3, sheet 3. longitudinal section drawing, f13, p36. Historical American Buildings Survey, 36 NM 3, sheet 3. Joy Overbeck and Wolfgang Pogzeba. Ranchos de Taos, San Francisco de Asis Church. Photographs by Wolfgang Pogzeba. Kansas City: The Lowell Press, 1981. exterior photo from outside ctyd, pX. interior photo of nave, p45. Kevin Matthews. The Great Buildings Collection on CD-ROM. Artifice, 2001. ISBN 0-9667098-4-5.— Available at Amazon.com
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