Meem also revered houses that modeled the Beaux Arts ideal of symmetry; it became one of the most-used building forms in twentieth-century New Mexico, probably because most of our early architects were Beaux Arts-trained. Old house with portal, Mexican settlement below Sunmount, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1912. Photograph by Jesse Nusbaum. Courtesy Palace of the Governors Photo Archives (NMHM/DCA), neg. no. 061507.