Kate Wingert-Playdon

About The Author

Kate Wingert-Playdon is an associate professor and department chair of architecture, Tyler School of Art, Temple University. Her contribution to the preservation work on the San Esteban del Rey Mission was recognized through a 2003 New Mexico Heritage Preservation Award.

Books by Kate Wingert-Playdon

John Gaw Meem at Acoma

The Restoration of San Esteban del Rey Mission

By Kate Wingert-Playdon
Built by Spanish Franciscan missionaries in the seventeenth century, the magnificent mission church at Acoma Pueblo in west-central New Mexico is the oldest and largest intact adobe structure in North America. But in the 1920s, in danger of becoming a ruin, the building was restored in a cooperat...
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