Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi

The Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis de Assisi, begun in 1869 and completed in the mid-1850s, is at the end of San Francisco Street a block from the historic Santa Fe Plaza. You may recognize it from B-roll footage for any TV show ever shot in Santa Fe. It was built by Archbishop Jean Baptiste Lamy (immortalized in Willa Cather's classic novel "Death Comes to the Archbishop"), a controversial figure in Santa Fe's history. The church is an interesting blend of traditional Romanesque Catholic Church elements fused with New Mexican touches such as the Stations of the Cross done as retablos (devotional paintings) and bultos (carved saints). As you enter, note the Hebrew symbol for God (the Tetragrammaton) above the door. There are many stories of why it's there, but none have been conclusively verified.