Barrio de Analco Historic District
Roughly bounded by E. De Vargas and College Sts., Santa Fe, NMThe Barrio (or District) de Analco in Santa Fe is one of the oldest neighborhoods of European inception in what is now the United States. Settled in 1620 and rebuilt in the l8th century, it contains numerous examples of the Spanish Pueblo architecture indigenous to this region. Today the Barrio is noteworthy in the United States because it represents a working class neighborhood of Spanish colonial heritage. The term "analco means "the other side of the water," and contrasted the Barrio with the opposite side of the Santa Fe River, where officials and prominent citizens lived and attended another parish chapel. The modest adobe structures of the Barrio de Analco were once numerous and typical, but now are rare surviving examples.
Local significance of the district:Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1968.
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