page_title: John Gaw Meem
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: John Gaw Meem / Works
caption_attribution_description: English: Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
context_page_description: John Gaw Meem IV was an American architect based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is best known for his instrumental role in the development and popularization of the Pueblo Revival Style and as a proponent of architectural Regionalism in the face of international modernism. Meem is regarded as one of the most important and influential architects to have worked in New Mexico.
context_section_description: Meem's office completed a total of 654 commissions, though some of these were not built and others, such as the commission for UNM, included dozens of individual buildings. Following is a list of some of Meem's most important works, which are located in Santa Fe unless otherwise noted.
  1924-28 Meem & McCormick
  San Estevan del Rey Mission Church, Acoma Pueblo (restoration, 1924–29)
  Hubert Galt Residence, Santa Fe (1924)
  Meadors/Staples/Anthony Residence, Santa Fe (1925)
  Daniel T. Kelly Residence, Santa Fe (1925)
  "Forked Lightning Ranch", Tex Austin/Fogelson-Garson Ranch, Pecos (1925–26)
  Mission Church at Santa Ana Pueblo (restoration, 1927)
  Palen Parish Hall, Holy Faith Episcopal Church, Santa Fe (1927)
  Mary Vilura Conkey Residence, Santa Fe (1927)
  Douglas Avenue School, Las Vegas, NM (1927)
  1928-41 John Gaw Meem, Architect
  Fuller Lodge, Los Alamos Ranch School, Los Alamos, NM (1928)
  La Fonda Hotel, Santa Fe (expansion & remodel, 1929)
  Taylor Memorial Chapel, Colorado Springs (1929)
  Maj. Robert Hunter Clarkson Residence, Tesuque (1929)
  Laboratory of Anthropology & Director's Residence, Santa Fe (1930)
  Bandelier Hall, UNM, Albuquerque (1930)
  Cathedral House, Cathedral Church of St. John (Episcopal), Albuquerque (1930)
  San Jose de Gracia Church, Las Trampas (restoration, 1931–32)
  Fountain Valley School, Colorado Springs (1931–36)
  "Las Acequias", Cyrus McCormick Jr. Residence, Nambe (1931)
  Fray Angelico Chavez Library, Santa Fe (1932–33)
  "Los Poblanos", Simms Residence, Gardens by Rose Greely, Los Ranchos (1932)
  Santa Fe Indian School expansion & remodel, Santa Fe, Supervising Architect under Mayers Murray & Phillip (1933-34. demolished)
  Santa Maria Mission Church, McCartys, Acoma Pueblo (1933)
  "La Quinta" Pavilion at "Los Poblanos", Los Ranchos (1934)
  Scholes Hall, UNM, Albuquerque (1934)
  Rodgers Library (Rodgers Hall), NMHU, Las Vegas, NM (1934)
  Margaret Mary Mission Church, Paraje, Laguna Pueblo (1935)
  Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs (1936)
  Sacred Heart Church, Mesita, Laguna Pueblo (1936)
  Student Union (now Anthropology Building), UNM, Albuquerque (1936)
  Albuquerque Little Theatre, Murals by Dorothy Stewart, Albuquerque (1936. subsequently remodeled)
  Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs (1936)
  Graham Gymnasium, WNMU, Silver City (remodel, 1936)
  Tatum Residence, Santa Fe (1937)
  Santa Fe Plaza remodel, Santa Fe (1937-54. Won competition sponsored by 1930 Cyrus McCormick Jr.)
  Robert Nordhouse Residence, Albuquerque (1935)
  Saint Thomas Church, Abiquiu (1935)
  Bernardinelli Building, (Main Branch, Santa Fe Public Library) (1936)
  Sandia School, Albuquerque (1938)
  Santa Fe County Courthouse, Santa Fe (1938)
  Zimmerman Library, Murals by Kenneth Adams, UNM, Albuquerque (1938)
  Maisel's Indian Trading Post, Albuquerque (1939)
  Cristo Rey Church, Santa Fe (1939)
  First Presbyterian Church, Santa Fe (1939)
  Kenneth Adamas Residence, Albuquerque (1939)
  Visitor Center, Coronado Historic Site (Kuaua Pueblo), Bernalillo (1939)
  St. Anne's Mission Church, Acomita, Acoma Pueblo (1940)
  Dodge-Bailey Residence, Santa Fe (1940)
  1941-44 Meem & Zehner
  1944-56 Meem Zehner & Holein
  Biology Annex, UNM, Albuquerque (1948)
  Immanuel Lutheran Church, Santa Fe (1948)
  Immanuel Presbyterian Church, Albuquerque (1949)
  Maestro John Crosby Residence, Santa Fe (1949)
  Raymond Jonson Residence (Raymond Jonson Gallery), UNM, Albuquerque (1949)
  St. James Episcopal Church, Clovis (1949)
  Cathedral Church of St. John (Episcopalian), Albuquerque (1950–52)
  Southern Union Gas Company Building, Albuquerque (1951)
  Clark Hall, UNM, Albuquerque (1951)
  Bishop Everett Jones Residence, Santa Fe (1951)
  Museum of International Folk Art, Galleries by Alexander Girard, Santa Fe (1953)
  Agnes Moya Canning Residence, Santa Fe (1953)
  Holy Faith Episcopal Church, reredos by Gustave Baumann (1945), Santa Fe (expansion & remodel, 1953)
  Good Shepherd Mission Church, Ft. Defiance, AZ (1955)
  Alumni Memorial Chapel, UNM, Albuquerque (1959–62)
caption: Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
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