Jen, Travis and I returned from Santa Fe on Friday for a well deserved family vacation. We absolutely love the natural beauty of New Mexico as well as the hospitality which, coming from Chicago, is truly a breath of fresh air. While we rode horseback, perused the art, rafted the Rio Grande and did other quintessential Santa Fe touristy stuff. I fell in love with one style of home that I had not previously mentioned in this series... The Pueblo.
Greater Chicagoland Home Inspection's new blog, "Life at the OLD Homestead" is meant as a primer for those interested in intricacies of old homes. I love old homes...I love inspecting them, I love restoring them, I love living in them. This is dedicated to that passion, and hopefully will shed some light on some of the finer points of these time capsules.
Determining the Age of your Home: Popular Home Styles
Another method to dating your home is to determine when the popular styles were constructed. One the style is determined, typically it is possible to find similar homes in the area that may have construction dates recorded with the township. In the next few blogs, I will develop a historical timeline and other information associated with specific details of each style of home.
New Pueblo (Adobe)
1912-present
Pueblo Indians built large, multi-family houses, which the Spanish called pueblos (villages). In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Spanish made their own Pueblo homes, but they adapted the style. They formed the adobe into sun-dried building blocks. After stacking the blocks, the Spaniards covered them with protective layers of mud.
Pueblo Revival houses became popular in the early 1900s, mainly in California and the southwestern United States.
Pueblo homes have many of these features:
- Massive, round-edged walls made with adobe
- Flat roof with no overhang
- Stepped levels
- Rounded parapet
- Spouts in the parapet to direct rainwater
- Vigas (heavy timbers) extending through walls to support the roof
- Latillas (poles) placed above vigas in angled pattern
- Deep window and door openings
- Simple windows Beehive corner fireplace
- Bancos (benches) that protrude from walls
- Nichos (niches) carved out of wall for display of religious icons
- Brick, wood, or flagstone floors
Determining the Age of your Home is written by Greater Chicagoland Home Inspection, a St Charles,Illlinois Home Inspection Company. If you are in the market to purchase a home in the Kane, Cook , DuPage, or Dekalb counties of Illinois, contact us for your inspection needs.
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