Isaac Hamilton Rapp, (1854 – March 27, 1933) was an American architect who has been called the "Creator of the Santa Fe style." He was born in Orange, New Jersey. Rapp learned his trade working for his father, a sometime architect and building contractor in

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. He left in 1887 and by 1889 had moved to Trinidad, Colorado where he joined with C.W. Bulger in establishing the architectural firm of Bulger and Rapp. The company dissolved after about five years at which point Rapp's brother William Mason Rapp moved to Trinidad and the firm of Rapp and Rapp was created. (This should not be confused with the architectural firm of Rapp and Rapp, noted for their theatre designs, composed of Isaac Rapp's two youngest brothers, Cornelius and George.) Eventually a third brother, Charles Rapp moved to Trinidad, but did not join the architectural firm. The

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in Trinidad, built in 1922, was one of the later works by Rapp. With Isaac Rapp died in 1933 at his home in Trinidad, Colorado.

Notable commissions

New Mexico Art Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

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unless otherwise noted: *

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, Roswell, Chaves County, New Mexico, 1911 *

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, 1921–1922 * Las Animas County Court House, Trinidad, Las Animas County, Colorado, 1912 * New Mexico Building at the Panama–California Exposition, San Diego, California, 1915 * New Mexico Military Institute (multiple buildings), Roswell, beginning 1907 * New Mexico Museum of Art, 1917 * New Mexico State Building,

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, 1904 * New Mexico Territorial Capitol, 1903 (no longer extant, though parts of it can still be found inside the Bataan Building) * New Mexico Territorial Executive Mansion, 1908 (no longer extant) *Gross, Kelly, and Company Warehouse, built in 1913, in the

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* First Christian Church of Trinidad, Colorado, 1922 * Fox West Theatre, Trinidad, Las Animas County, Colorado, 1908 *

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, Trinidad, Colorado, 1889

References

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