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Seton Village is a National Historic Landmark District in a rural residential area south of Santa Fe in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, United States.
After searching for a suitable tract for two and a half years, Ernest Thompson Seton acquired a 2,500-acre tract of land southeast of Santa Fe, New Mexico, in February 1930. He called the place “Seton Village.”
Seton Village is a National Historic Landmark District in a rural residential area south of Santa Fe in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, United States. It encompasses a residential settlement and educational facility established in 1930 by Ernest Thompson Seton, an educator and conservationist best known as a founder of the Boy Scouts of America.
- Significance: Seton Village, New Mexico, was one of the first artists' colonies in the Santa Fe area as well as the home of the College of Indian Wisdom (later Seton Institute). Its owner and architect, Ernest Thompson Seton, was an author, artist, lecturer and naturalist, and a founder of the Boy Scout and Woodcraft League movements in the ...
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History of the Area. Seton Village was purchased in 2002 by the Academy for the Love of Learning. The landmark is currently not open to the public as Seton Castle is in the process being restored; and the grounds are being cleared of years of rubbish, broken glass, and fallen wooden structures.
Seton’s New Mexico Homes. When Seton acquired a 2,500-acre tract near Santa Fe and relocated to the area in 1930, he called his new project Seton Village. One of the first buildings in Seton Village was his temporary home Lagunita on present-day Seton Plaza.
