See First Presbyterian Church of Santa Fe, Grants, New Mexico

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Built in 1937-1939, this Pueblo Revival-style building was designed by John Gaw Meem for the congregation of the First Presbyterian Church of Santa Fe, founded in 1867. The building is situated on the same site as two earlier churches built in the 19th Century. The original church, a small adobe structure, was built for a Baptist congregation after New Mexico was annexed by the United States, but quickly folded. In 1867, the building became home to the First Presbyterian Church, with the congregation initially struggling before beginning to grow, managing to build a brick church in 1881, and becoming self-sufficient by 1902. The old church was expanded in 1906, and by the mid-1930s, had become too small for the growing congregation, leading to the construction of the present church. The building features a faux adobe exterior with thick tapered buttresses, double-hung windows, rectilinear vigas, a stepped front gable parapet, and a rear wing, built in 2006 to replace a series of structures that had been added at various times, which houses offices, classrooms, an underground parking garage, and a fellowship hall. The building is a contributing structure in the Santa Fe Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. Today, the building remains home to the First Presbyterian Church of Santa Fe, which remains the oldest protestant congregation in the city.

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