National Park Service
The Missions of New Mexico Since 1776

List of Illustrations

1. Ácoma church interior. Charles Graham. Harper's Weekly (August 2, 1890).

2, 3. San Felipe pueblo church, 1919. Museum of New Mexico (MNM).

4. Santa Clara, c. 1900. Kenneth M. Chapman. MNM.

5. Santa Clara interior, 1899. Adam Clark Vroman. Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History (LAC).

6. Laguna mission floor plan. Kubler, Religious Architecture.

7. Mud plastering the Ranchos de Taos church, 1940s. Chavez, The Old Faith and Old Glory.

8. Franciscan missionary. After Fray Diego Valades, Rhetorica Christiana (1579). Kessell, Kiva, Cross, and Crown.

9. Don Juan de Oñate, signature. Kessell, Kiva, Cross, and Crown.

10. St. Francis, painting on hide. MNM.

11. Native carpenters. After Codice Florentino. Kessell, Kiva, Cross, and Crown.

12. Roof construction. Kubler, Religious Architecture.

13. Plan of the Santa Cruz de la Cañada church. Kubler, Religious Architecture.

14. Pecos book of patentes, 1716. Archives of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe (AASF).

15. Fray Francisco Atanasio Domínguez, signature. Kessell, Kiva, Cross, and Crown.

16. Las Trampas, c. 1902. Henry Howard Dorman. MNM.

17. Ácoma mission, c. 1899. William Henry Jackson. Colorado Historical Society.

18. Archbishop Jean Baptiste Lamy, 1882. William Henry Brown. MNM.

19. San Juan pueblo church, 1899. Vroman. MNM.

20. Isleta tower and belfry, 1899. Vroman. National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution (NAA).

21. Nambé pueblo church, c. 1907. George H. Pepper. Maxwell Museum, University of New Mexico (UNM).

22. Dedication of Our Lady of Lourdes statue, San Juan pueblo, 1888. MNM.

23. Adolph F. Bandelier, signature. Special Collections, Zimmerman Library, UNM.

24. Santa Cruz de la Cañada sanctuary, early 1870s. Henry T. Hiester. MNM.

25. Zia pueblo church, painting by Carlos Vierra. MNM.

26. San Ildefonso pueblo church, c. 1917. MNM.

27. San Miguel church interior, 1899. Vroman. LAC.

28. William George Tight. UNM.

29. Edward B. Cristy, c. 1905. Special Collections, UNM.

30. University Hall before 1909. William Henry Cobb. Special Collections, UNM.

31. University Hall after 1909. Special Collections, UNM.

32. Colorado Supply Company, built in 1908. School of American Research Collection, State Records Center and Archives, Santa Fe (SRC).

33. Cristo Rey church. T. Harmon Parkhurst. MNM.

34. Archbishop Daeger accepts the deed to the santuario of Chimayo, 1929. AASF.

35. Isleta pueblo church, 1937. New Mexico Commerce and Industry Department.

36. Painting on the nave wall, Zia, 1938. Mitchell Wilder. Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Taylor Museum Archives.

37. The Santa Fe Parroquia, 1846. Abert, Report (1848).

38. Remodeled and crenelated, the Parroquia, c. 1867. Nicholas Brown. MNM.

39, 40. Interior of the Parroquia, and exterior entrapped in the walls of the cathedral. Charles Graham illustrations, probably based on Ben Wittick photographs. Harper's Monthly (April 1880).

41. The Santa Fe cathedral, 1886. Dana B. Chase. MNM.

42. Artist's projection of what the cathedral might have been. Ritch, Aztlan (1885).

43. Rules of the confraternity of Nuestra Señora de la Luz, title page. Printed in Mexico City, 1766. MNM.

44. Chapel of Our Lady of Light, 1776, conjectural sketch. Horace T. Pierce. Adams and Chavez, Missions.

45. The stone reredos, c. 1886. Charles F. Lummis. Benavides, Revised Memorial.

46. Choir loft beam, San Miguel church, Santa Fe. Historic American Buildings Survey (1934).

47, 48. San Miguel, exterior and interior, c. 1871. Henry T. Hiester. MNM.

49. The buttressed east end, San Miguel, 1881. Ben Wittick. MNM.

50. San Miguel in a ruinous state, early 1880s. Sylvia Loomis Collection, SRC.

51. San Miguel restored, 1887. Chase. MNM.

52. Longitudinal section, San Miguel. Historic American Buildings Survey (1934).

53. Remissionized, the San Miguel church in 1957. New Mexico Commerce and Industry Department.

54. Tesuque mission, 1860s or 1870s. NAA.

55. The interim church at Tesuque, 1881. W. H. Brown. MNM.

56. Tesuque, 1914. MNM.

57. Carlos Vierra's conjectural painting of the Tesuque church. MNM.

58. Tesuque pueblo, 1977. Southwest Cultural Resources Center, National Park Service (NPS).

59. Nambé, 1899. Vroman. Benavides, Memorial of 1630.

60. Church facade, Nambé, 1899. Vroman. MNM

61. Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco's painting of the Immaculate Conception. Photograph, MNM.

62. Nambé's church modernized, c. 1907. Edwin S. Andrews. MNM.

63. The "barn" church, Nambé, 1914. Waldo C. Twitchell. MNM.

64. The 1974 Nambé church. Courtesy of Allen L. McNown, architect.

65. Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de Pojoaque, 1899. Vroman. MNM.

66. Pojoaque church interior, 1899. Vroman. LAC.

67. Distant rear view of Pojoaque mission, 1899. Vroman. NAA.

68, 69. Pojoaque with pitched roof, c. 1907. Pepper. Maxwell Museum, UNM.

70. San Ildefonso, 1880. John K. Hillers. MNM.

71. San Ildefonso church interior, 1899. Vroman. LAC.

72. Open chapel, San Ildefonso, 1880s. Lummis. Southwest Museum, Los Angeles.

73. Mission San Ildefonso from the northwest, 1899. Vroman. NAA.

74. The "schoolhouse" church, San Ildefonso, c. 1915. Gladys Vinson Mitchell. Maxwell Museum, UNM.

75. San Ildefonso's replica church. McHugh and Hooker, Bradley P. Kidder, and Associates, Architects. The Albuquerque Journal.

76. Plan of the church at Santa Cruz de la Cañada, 1768. AASF.

77. Embellished, the Santa Cruz church, early 1870s. Hiester. MNM.

78. Church interior, Santa Cruz, c. 1881. Jackson. MNM.

79. Santa Cruz facade, c. 1881. Jackson. Colorado Historical Society.

80. Church and town of Santa Cruz, c. 1881. Jackson. MNM.

81. The pitched roof, Santa Cruz, 1908. MNM.

82. Santa Cruz from the air, 1964. Dick Kent Photography, Albuquerque.

83. San Juan pueblo church, 1881. Jackson. MNM.

84. Padre Camilo Seux. Southwestern Catholic.

85. Seux's Lourdes chapel, San Juan pueblo, 1890. Salpointe, Soldiers of the Cross.

86. Rectory, Lourdes statue, and church, San Juan, 1898. Orson Pratt Huish and Thomas Hinshaw. MNM.

87. Seux's 1913 church at San Juan, 1973. Richard Federici. Historic Preservation Program Files, SRC.

88. San Lorenzo de Picurís, 1899. Vroman. MNM.

89. The Picurís church with metal roof, c. 1935. Parkhurst. MNM.

90. Remissionized, the church at Picurís, 1973. Federici. Historic Preservation Program Files, SRC.

91. La Muerte by Nazario López. The Taylor Museum. Photograph by Laura Gilpin. Courtesy of the artist.

92. The church of San José de las Trampas, c. 1902. Dorman. MNM.

93. The Trampas church restored, 1930s. Parkhurst. MNM.

94. Trampas church interior, 1937. Gilpin. Courtesy of the artist.

95. The Trampas church restored, 1973. Federici. Historic Preservation Program Files, SRC.

96. Diagram of the battle at Taos pueblo, 1847. Kubler, Religious Architecture.

97, 98. The churches of San Jerónimo de Taos, old and new, c. 1881. Jackson. Colorado Historical Society.

99. The Taos pueblo church, 1920s. Parkhurst. MNM.

100. Remodeled again, the Taos church, 1939. New Mexico Commerce and Industry Department.

101. Part of Taos pueblo, aerial photograph, 1979. Division of Remote Sensing, Southwest Cultural Resources Center, NPS.

102. Santa Clara mission, c. 1881. Jackson. Colorado Historical Society.

103. Profile of the Santa Clara church, 1880s. Lummis. Benavides, Memorial of 1630.

104. Main altar screen, Santa Clara, 1899. Vroman. LAC.

105. Santa Clara with pitched roof, c. 1905. Pepper. Maxwell Museum, UNM.

106. The Santa Clara church fallen, c. 1910. MNM.

107. Under construction, Santa Clara's replica church, 1918. MNM.

108. Santa Clara pueblo from the air, 1964. Dick Kent Photography.

109. Santo Tomas de Abiquiú, c. 1890. Cordova, Abiquiú and Don Cacahuate.

110. Chapel of Santa Rosa de Lima, c. 1915. MNM.

111. Abiquiú in the 1920s. Parkhurst. MNM.

112. Architect John Gaw Meem's front elevation for a new Abiquiú church, 1935. Meem Collection, UNM.

113. The Abiquiú church under construction, 1937. Córdova, Abiquiú and Don Cacahuate.

114. Santo Domingo pueblo church, 1846. Abert, Western Ameruca.

115. Bandelier admiring door panels, Santo Domingo, 1880. George C. Bennett. MNM.

116. Mission Santo Domingo, 1880. Bennett. MNM.

117. Santo Domingo's new church, 1899. Vroman. Webb and Weinstein, Dwellers at the Source.

118. Carved door panel, Santo Domingo. MNM. Photograph by Wilder. Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Taylor Museum Archives.

119. Sandía mission ruins, 1899. Vroman. NAA.

120. Sandía mission ruins, 1901. Lummis. Southwest Museum.

121. The nineteenth-century church at Sandía, 1899. Vroman. MNM.

122. The Sandía church, 1976. Jim Largo. The Albuquerque Journal.

123. Sandía pueblo, aerial photograph, 1979. Division of Remote Sensing, Southwest Cultural Resources Center, NPS.

124. Albuquerque in the 1850s. Davis, El Gringo (1857).

125. San Felipe Neri church, c. 1866. N. Brown. MNM.

126, 127. San Felipe Neri, exterior and interior, 1881. Wittick. MNM.

128. Architects' rendering, 1966. McHugh, Kidder, and Plettenberg, Architects. Dick Kent Photography. 146

129. San Felipe Neri and the Old Town Plaza, 1978. Dick Kent Photography. 147

130. The Rev. George Salazar and the artificial stonework, 1978. The Albuquerque Journal. 147

131. The church at Tomé, c. 1900. Prince, Spanish Churches. 151

132. The Tomé church renovated, 1969. Jon Samuelson. Historic Preservation Program Files, SRC. 152

133, 134. Interior and exterior, Tomé, 1979. Robert Brewer. Courtesy of the artist.

135. Cochití church interior, 1899. Vroman. LAG. 157

136. Facade, Cochití, 1899. Vroman. NAA.

137. Cochití "modernized," c. 1915. MNM.

138. Cochití with truncated steeple, 1949. New Mexico Commerce and Industry Department.

139. Remissionized, the Cochití church in 1973. Federici. Historic Preservation Program Files, SRC. 160

140. San Felipe pueblo, 1846. Abert, Report (1848).

141. The mission at San Felipe, 1880. Hillers. NAA.

142. San Felipe's church, c. 1935. Parkhurst. MNM.

143. Santa Ana pueblo, 1846. Abert, Report (1848).

144. The Santa Ana church, 1899. Vroman. NAA.

145. Santa Ana interior, 1899. Vroman. LAC.

146. The church at Santa Ana, 1938. Wilder. Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Taylor Museum Archives.

147. Santa Ana's church from the air, 1964. Dick Kent Photography.

148. The pueblo of Santa Ana, aerial photograph, 1979. Division of Remote Sensing, Southwest Cultural Resources Center, NPS.

149. The Zia church in profile, 1899. Pepper. Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation.

150. Facade of the Zia church, 1899. Vroman. NAA.

151. The interior, Zia, 1899. Vroman. LAC.

152. Installing the new roof, Zia, 1923. Kenneth M. Chapman. MNM.

153. Neo-Gothic embellishment in the Zia sanctuary, 1923. Odd S. Halseth. MNM.

154. The Zia altar screen, 1938. Wilder. Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Taylor Museum Archives.

155. Jémez pueblo, 1849. Richard H. Kern. Simpson, Journal (1852).

156. The rebuilt Jémez church, 1899. Vroman. MNM.

157. Jémez from the air, 1964. Dick Kent Photography.

158. The sanctuary, Laguna, 1923. Gilpin. Courtesy of the artist.

159. Mission San José de la Laguna, 1881. Wittick. MNM.

160. The Laguna sundial, c. 1905. Pepper. Maxwell Museum, UNM.

161. The church interior, Laguna, c. 1920. Burton Frasher. MNM.

162. Laguna mission, longitudinal elevation. Kubler, Religious Architecture.

163. A part of Laguna pueblo, aerial photograph, 1979. Division of Remote Sensing, Southwest Cultural Resources Center, NPS.

164. Ácoma, c. 1900. Edward S. Curtis, North American Indian.

165. Mission San Esteban de Ácoma. Historic American Buildings Survey (1934).

166. Ácoma church interior, 1880s. Lummis. MNM.

167. Church and convento, Ácoma, 1899. Jackson. Colorado Historical Society.

168. Looking down into the Ácoma convento, 1899. Vroman. NAA.

169. Ácoma's church with boxlike belfries. MNM.

170, 171. Interior of the Ácoma church, 1940. Wilder. Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Taylor Museum Archives.

172. Ácoma, aerial photograph, 1979. Division of Remote Sensing, Southwest Cultural Resources Center, NPS.

173. Zuñi, 1849. R. H. Kern. Schoolcraft, Information (1854).

174. Looking east, Zuñi, 1849. R. H. Kern. Simpson, Journal (1852).

175. The Zuñi mission, 1873. Timothy O'Sullivan. Maxwell Museum, UNM.

176. The Zuñi mission, 1879. Hillers. NAA.

177. Interior of the ruined Zuñi church, c. 1890s. Faber. NAA.

178. Zuñi's reconstructed church. Historic Preservation Program Files, SRC.

179. Interior of the Zuñi church, 1977. Lee Marmon. Courtesy of the artist.

180. San Agustín de la Isleta, 1867. Alexander Gardner or William A. Bell. Perry Collection, Missouri Historical Society.

181. The Isleta church with changed facade, 1881. Wittick. MNM.

182. Interior of the Isleta church, 1880s. Lummis. Benavides, Memorial of 1630.

183. The Rev. Antonine Docher, c. 1920. Cobb Collection, Special Collections, UNM.

184. Bristling with spires, Isleta's church in 1922. Elsa Brumm Collection. MNM.

185. The Isleta church remodeled, c. 1971. Dick Kent Photography.

186. Part of Isleta pueblo, aerial photograph, 1979. Division of Remote Sensing, Southwest Cultural Resources Center, NPS.

187. Pecos mission, 1846. John Mix Stanley. Emory, Notes (1848).

188. Pecos mission, 1858. Heinrich Balduin Mollhausen. Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Museum fur Volkerkunde, Berlin. Photograph courtesy of David H. Miller, Cameron University.

189, 190. The Pecos church in ruins, early 1870s. Hiester. MNM.

191. Bandelier at Pecos, 1880. Bandelier, "A Visit to the Aboriginal Ruins.

192, 193. The church of San Antonio, village of Pecos, exterior and interior, 1880. Wittick. MNM.

194. Removing fill from the Pecos church, 1915. MNM.

195. The mission ruins, Pecos National Monument, 1974. Fred E. Mang, Jr. NPS.

196. Galisteo book of baptisms, 1711. AASF.

197. Ácoma bell. After Historic American Buildings Survey (1934).

198. Seal of the Custody of the Conversion of St. Paul. Adams and Chavez, Missions.

199-216. Pueblo churches, 1979. Aerial photography by Koogle and Pouls Engineering, Albuquerque. Courtesy of Remote Sensing Division, Southwest Cultural Resources Center, NPS.

199. Tesuque.

200. Nambé.

201. San Ildefonso.

202. San Juan.

203. Picurís.

204. Taos.

205. Santa Clara.

206. Santo Domingo.

207. Sandía.

208. Cochití.

209. San Felipe.

210. Santa Ana.

211. Zia.

212. Jémez.

213. Laguna.

214. Ácoma.

215. Zuñi.

216. Isleta.

217, 218. Crosses on Ácoma bells. After Historic American Buildings Survey (1934).




Color Plates
A. Santo Domingo, 1853. Heinrich Balduin Möllhausen, Diary of a Journey (1858).

Sketches of New Mexico churches, 1881. John Gregory Bourke. Courtesy of the U.S. Military Academy Library, West Point.

I. Nambé.
II. Pojoaque.
III. San Ildefonso.
IV. Santa Cruz de la Cañada.
V. San Juan.
VI. Picurís.
VII. Las Trampas.
VIII. San Jerónimo de Taos, ruin.
IX. San Jerónimo de Taos.
X. Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de Taos.
XI. Santa Clara.
XII. Santo Domingo.
XIII. Sandía.
XIV. Cochití.
XV. San Felipe.
XVI. Santa Ana.
XVII. Zia.
XVIII. Jémez.
XIX. Laguna.
XX. Áoma.
XXI. Zuñi.
XXII. Isleta.
XXIII. Isleta del Sur.

cross
217. Cross on Ácoma bells. After Historic American Buildings Survey (1934).

Copyright © 1980 by the University of New Mexico Press. All rights reserved. Material from this edition published for the Cultural Properties Review Committee by the University of New Mexico Press may not be reproduced in any manner without the written consent of the author and the University of New Mexico Press.

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