Name: John Gaw Meem at Acoma: The Restoration of San Esteban del Rey Mission
Author: Kate Wingert-Playdon (Author)
ISBN: 9780826352095

John Gaw Meem at Acoma: The Restoration of San Esteban del Rey Mission book cover

John Gaw Meem at Acoma: The Restoration of San Esteban del Rey Mission

Author(s): Kate Wingert-Playdon (Author)

Publisher: UNM Press
Publication Date: November 15, 2012
Edition: Illustrated
Language: English
Print length: 288 pages
ISBN-10: 082635209X
ISBN-13: 9780826352095

Book Description

Built by Spanish Franciscan missionaries in the seventeenth century, the magnificent mission church at Acoma Pueblo in west-central New Mexico is the oldest and largest intact adobe structure in North America. But in the 1920s, in danger of becoming a ruin, the building was restored in a cooperative effort among Acoma Pueblo, which owned the structure, and other interested parties. Kate Wingert-Playdon's narrative of the restoration and the process behind it is the only detailed account of this milestone example of historic preservation, in which New Mexico's most famous architect, John Gaw Meem, played a major role.

Editorial Reviews

Review

This carefully detailed historical analysis reveals not only Meem's role in the restoration of Acoma but his interaction with the many others who played a part.
--Southwest Books of the Year

From the Back Cover

Kate Wingert-Playdon's narrative of the restoration of San Esteban del Rey Mission and the process behind it is the only detailed account of this milestone example of historic preservation, in which New Mexico's most famous architect, John Gaw Meem, played a major role.

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