Camino del Monte Sol Historic District, Historic district in Santa Fe, United States.
The Camino del Monte Sol Historic District is a neighborhood in Santa Fe with more than one hundred buildings constructed in the Pueblo Revival style spread across several streets. These structures display a blend of architectural approaches while maintaining their original character with traditional adobe and flat roofs typical of the region.
The district developed in the early years of the 20th century and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. This recognition honored its architectural and cultural importance to New Mexico's history.
The name Camino del Monte Sol means "Road of the Sun Mountain." The painters known as Los Cinco Pintores — Fremont Ellis, Walter Mruk, Joseph Bakos, Willard Nash and Will Shuster — lived at numbers 566 to 586 on the street. The Acequia Madre House at 614 Acequia Madre, home of Eva Scott Fényes and her granddaughter Leonora Curtin Paloheimo, held invited self-portraits and Spanish Colonial Arts Society crafts; since 2013 it has housed the Women's International Study Center.
The district lies in the southeast corner of Santa Fe, south of the Santa Fe River and the Acequia Madre, roughly bounded by Camino del Monte Sol, El Caminito and Garcia Street. Its streets run mostly north-south and adjoin the Santa Fe Historic District to the north and west. It remains a residential neighborhood, unlike commercial Canyon Road, so visitors view the adobe houses from the street.
Architect John Gaw Meem shaped the district through his designs that combined local adobe traditions with modern architectural movements of the early 20th century. His work demonstrates how traditional building methods incorporated contemporary design ideas.
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