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Jean Cocteau Cinema
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Audio walking tour

Santa Fe Audio Walking Tour

Adobe & Sky: Where Centuries of Art and Story Meet

Stops
18
Core walk
16 of 18 stops within 1.5 mi of the center
Farthest stop
2.6 mi from the center
Start
Santa Fe Railyard
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Eighteen stops walk Santa Fe from the Railyard to the Indian School. The Santa Fe Railyard (fifty acres of rail, park, plaza and cultural houses) opens the route at the Santa Fe Depot. The New Mexico School for the Arts, the Santa Fe University of Art and Design (begun 1859 as St. Michael's College), the Jean Cocteau Cinema, the Hilton Santa Fe Historic Plaza, and De Vargas Center carry downtown. The Santa Fe Playhouse (Mary Hunter Austin's 1919 Little Theatre), San Miguel Mission (around 1610, often called the oldest church building in the continental United States), and Santuario de Guadalupe (the oldest U.S. church dedicated to Our Lady of Guadalupe) anchor the Barrio De Analco Historic District. The Donaciano Vigil House, the 1720 Gregorio Crespin House, the Don Gaspar Bridge, and the Don Gaspar Historic District's 278 contributing buildings follow. The Gustave Baumann House and studio, the Bataan Memorial Building, the circular Roundhouse of the New Mexico State Capitol, and the Santa Fe Indian School close the walk.

Highlights

  • Jean Cocteau Cinema
    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.

  • Built in 1610, this is the oldest church building in the USA. It's even open for tours.
    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.

  • New Mexico State Capitol, Santa Fe, NM
    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.

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