Santa Fe Audio Walking Tour

Highlights

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  Jean Cocteau Cinema

  Four partners opened the Collective Fantasy Cinema on this site in 1976, and the Santa Fe theater it became now bears the name Jean Cocteau Cinema. In 1976 four partners — Lynne Cohen, Mary Hether, Anne Lewis and Richard Szanyi — opened the first theater on this site.

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  San Miguel Mission

  San Miguel Chapel, the Spanish colonial mission church you are facing, was originally built around 1610 and is often called the oldest church building in the continental United States. This was probably the first church in the new settlement, built across the Santa Fe River from the villa proper in the neighborhood known as the Barrio de Analco, an area once inhabited mainly by native people including Tlaxcalans who had accompanied the Spanish settlers from Mexico.

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  New Mexico State Capitol

  Here is the Roundhouse, the New Mexico State Capitol. This is the seat of government of the U.S. state of New Mexico, located in central Santa Fe.

• Santa Fe University of Art and Design

  Picture St. Michael's College, founded here in 1859, now reborn as this art school. This campus began life as a Catholic school, founded as St. Michael’s College in 1859 at the urging of Archbishop Jean-Baptiste Lamy, who had arrived in New Mexico in 1851 and, after establishing Loretto Academy for girls in 1852, recruited the De La Salle Christian Brothers to open a brother school for boys; St. Michael’s held its first classes in the fall of 1859.

• Santa Fe Indian School

  Affiliated with the Bureau of Indian Education, or BIE, the Santa Fe Indian School in front of you is a tribal boarding secondary school here in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Federal Government established this institution to educate Native American children from tribes throughout the Southwestern United States, and while the school gives its founding date as 1890, contemporary reports show 40 students in April 1885 and 200 students in April 1887.

All 18 stops

• Santa Fe Railyard (Railyard Arts District)

  Around you spreads the Santa Fe Railyard, fifty acres of rail, park, plaza and cultural houses in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

• Santa Fe Depot (Railyard)

  Your platform sits at 410 Guadalupe Street, the northern terminus of the New Mexico Rail Runner Express commuter line.

• New Mexico School for the Arts (Santa Fe Railyard)

  Picture a former Catholic elementary school reborn in 2010 as this charter high school in the Santa Fe Railyard.

• Santa Fe University of Art and Design (Santa Fe)

  Picture St. Michael's College, founded here in 1859, now reborn as this art school.

• Jean Cocteau Cinema (Santa Fe)

  Four partners opened the Collective Fantasy Cinema on this site in 1976, and the Santa Fe theater it became now bears the name Jean Cocteau…

• Hilton Santa Fe Historic Plaza (Historic Plaza)

  Two 18th-century adobe houses greet you here, homes once tied to the Ortiz family, folded into this hotel that opened in 1973.

• De Vargas Center (Santa Fe)

  Your mall carries the name of Diego de Vargas, one of two enclosed shopping centers in Santa Fe.

• Santa Fe Playhouse (Barrio De Analco Historic District)

  Mary Hunter Austin founded the Santa Fe Playhouse in 1919, and its home since 1962 is the building you now face.

• San Miguel Mission (Barrio De Analco)

  San Miguel Chapel, the Spanish colonial mission church you are facing, was originally built around 1610 and is often called the oldest church building in…

• Santuario de Guadalupe (Santa Fe Historic District)

  Thick adobe walls rise ahead of you and belong to the Santuario de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, the oldest church in the United States dedicated…

• Donaciano Vigil House (Santa Fe)

  Donaciano Vigil, the first Hispanic governor of New Mexico under US rule, lived in the adobe house you see here, built in 1832.

• Gregorio Crespin House (Santa Fe)

  Gregorio Crespin built a two-room adobe house here between 1720 and 1750, the core of what is also called the Van Stone House.

• Don Gaspar Bridge (Santa Fe)

  Don Gaspar Avenue crosses the Santa Fe River on the bridge under your feet, a graceful ribbon of concrete between Alameda and E. De Vargas…

• Don Gaspar Historic District (Don Gaspar Historic District)

  Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 with 278 contributing buildings, the Don Gaspar Historic District spreads out in front of you…

• Gustave Baumann House (Santa Fe)

  Gustave Baumann built the adobe home and studio in front of you at 409 Camino de Las Animas in 1923.

• Bataan Memorial Building (Santa Fe)

  Between 1900 and 1912 the Bataan Memorial Building in front of you served as New Mexico's Territorial Capitol, and from 1912 to 1966 as the…

• New Mexico State Capitol (Santa Fe)

  Here is the Roundhouse, the New Mexico State Capitol.

• Santa Fe Indian School (Santa Fe)

  Affiliated with the Bureau of Indian Education, or BIE, the Santa Fe Indian School in front of you is a tribal boarding secondary school here…

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