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San Buenaventura de Cochiti

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San Buenaventura de Cochiti oia Wed, 06/23/2021 - 14:01

San Buenaventura de Cochiti was completed in 1628, following the prototype for its time and location: thick adobe walls, a single nave and beamed ceiling. However, several interventions throughout the years transformed into a nondescript chapel, lacking of architectural style. Throughout the 17th century, this mission remained a visita of Santo Domingo Mission. It was one of three churches serving the Queres Nation. A 1667 reference was the first to attribute the mission name to San Buenaventura, who remains the patron saint. The present church was restored in the 1960s to what seemed its original structure but no original furnishings remain.

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TYPOLOGICAL ANALYSIS
HISTORICAL ANALYSIS

Geolocation

35.6089, -106.3502

Historical Designation

National Register of Historic Places (Cochiti Pueblo)

Current Use

living church

Current Condition

restored

Current Integrity

good

Chronology of Preservation Treatments

post-pueblo revolt the mission was reportedly in poor shape and being rebuilt

iron bell clapper stolen and re-fashioned into tools

1880s

preservation

Lt. Bourke visited and noted the church had rotten ceiling beams

was white washed on the inside and had pine planks decorated by locals

1915

the church was given a pitched tin roof and a tall steeple

original wooden balcony was removed

the 20ft tall steeple later proved to be structurally unsound and was later shortened

1960s

restoration

architect Robert Plettenberg collaborated to restore the mission to how it appeared in early photographs

Source of Funding

Archidiocese of Santa Fe

Cochiti Pueblo

Jurisdiction/Ownership/Management

Archidiocese of Santa Fe

Partner Groups/Organization

Interpretive Program

Site Access

Principal Building Materials

adobe

wood

Plan Type

simple hall

Principal Facade Features

wall belfry

balcony above entrance portal

Ancillary Features

Mission Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles de Porciúncula

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Mission Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles de Porciúncula oia Wed, 06/23/2021 - 14:12

The first church at the Pecos Pueblo was probably built by the Franciscan Fray Pedro Zambrano Ortiz by 1619. The people of the pueblo would not allow construction of a church closer to their dwellings. In 1625, a more permanent church was constructed outside the walls of the pueblo of Pecos, New Mexico. After the Spanish reconquest in 1693, a smaller church was built in 1717. The walls of this later church still stand on top of the earlier church's stone foundation.