UNM's third president, William George Tight, fell in love with New Mexico in the late nineteenth century. His visionary appreciation of the creative genius of Hispanic and Pueblo architects, artists, and craftsmen led him to hire an architect to remodel UNM's first building along the lines of the mission churches that dominate New Mexico's Indian pueblos. This decision set the tone. In the mid twentieth century thirty-eight UNM buildings were constructed in the Pueblo style, most of them de