National and State Register

Iglesia de San Francisco de Assisi

Costilla County

Iglesia de San Francisco de Assisi is significant for Hispanic Heritage as the central gathering place for the community of San Francisco (La Valley).

White painted front of Iglesia de San Francisco de Assisi, 2010.

Iglesia de San Francisco de Assisi, 2010.

Photo by Heather Bailey.

The church remains the location for ongoing cultural use and is a site of regular community gatherings.  Additionally, the church is a good example of vernacular church constructed for the San Luis Catholic mission churches after World War II.  As such, it features concrete block rather than adobe bricks with architectural references to Late Gothic Revival and Mission Revival forms rather than the Early Gothic Revival elements of other mission churches in the region.