I've had some great working opportunities lately, which keeps me too busy to post on the blog. The City of Cortez, Colorado, wants to know more about their history so they have hired me to conduct a survey of the historic houses located on Montezuma Avenue. Cortez is in the heartland of the Ancestral Puebloans who lived in the area up into the 1300's. Mesa Verde National Park is just down the road, and that may be why the town has some really cool houses built in what is called the "Pueblo Revival" style, a design that sort of mimics the flat roofed homes of pueblo people. Another absolutely stunning and humongous version of the Pueblo Revival was built in Santa Fe in 1939 by the National Park Service. It was painstakingly constructed of hand made adobe bricks I was lucky and got the job of documenting the history of this amazing building which is still a Park Service administrative building.
