This is a hard trivia question. This church was built in 1886 but the first congregation was established in 1610. Where is it located? Bonus question: What is the name of this church? Unless you live in this city, I would be impressed if you can figure it out through research 🙂
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
St Francis in Santa Fe NM?
In the photo you can see a sign for Wind River Trading Co – there is one in Snata fe selling Indian Jewelry as advertised on the sign.
anon 5:17 — Yes, that’s how I also figured out within 1 minute that it’s st francis in santa fe. Just google wind river trading, find the address, and look for a church nearby.
Blast. They beat me to it. 🙂
You guys are AMAZING! Good job Bill 🙂 How did you figure it out?
Best wishes,
Susan Polgar
Susan, there’s a sign for Wind River Trading company in the photo. Google that, get the address, put it into Google Maps and then search for churches nearby. 😀
That’s very good detective work. Good job everyone!
Best wishes,
Susan Polgar
Googled “1610 church NM,” then figured it out via Archdiocese of Santa Fe site. (TX was my first guess, but then I looked at the architecture).
Not that many European settlements of that age in US proper.
And after I posted, I also google mapped the distance from “Wind River Trading” to the cathedral–cheesy, but the anons’ technique is even more efficient.
I googled wind river and tom taylor on my second attempt since Santa Fe came up on my first search and I wasn’t sure about snow in Santa Fe.
I got this:
“I visited a few Native American jewelry booths in the park are near St. Francis Church. I also walked as I’ve so often done along the Palace of the Governors. These areas are basically retail oriented and as such holds little interest for a wholesaler buyer such as myself. Nonetheless, I will occasionally meet an artist of note.
I also checked the Wind River Trading Company across from La Fonda. It is Santa Fe’s largest Indian Art Store. They have a great selection and generally good retail pricing. I checked out a few other stores. I saw Calvin Begay’s work wide represented at several of the stores I visited. I also learned that the BG Mudd line is also made in Gallup. I’ll look them up next week and probably soon start putting their fine products up on the site. Some their pieces are amazing. The fine multi-stone inlay range buckle set I saw today at Tom Taylor’s priced at over $1600.
I finding it is interesting that some the Santa Fe merchants speak of Gallup as “local”. Hey, Gallup is 180 miles away.”
Bill Brock Rules!
Rule 11 that is…
heh.
The Internet is a bunch of pipes!
Bill, you used the same clues I did but were better at using google than me. I also first thought of Texas (because of the license plate), then decided the topography was wrong. Good job!