New Mexico vernacular

New Mexico vernacular is a style of vernacular architecture.

It developed from the c.1870s to c.1940s.{{cite web|url=http://www.nmhistoricpreservation.org/assets/files/arms/HCPIArchitecturalStyles20131115.pdf |title=Architectural Classification: Style and Type to be used with the Historic Cultural Property Inventory (HCPI) Form |date=November 2013 |accessdate=June 24, 2019 |publisher=State of New Mexico Dept. of Historic Preservation}}

One typical form is the one-story hipped box massing, with very limited ornamentation or no ornamentation at all. The elements of spare ornamentation might include "Italianate brackets and scroll-sawn ornament, lathe-turned or square chamfered columns, wood shingles on gable ends, and diamond-patterned windows".