Comment HISTORY to get my full Santa Fe trip guide 👇 #AD When people think of America’s “oldest” buildings, they usually picture the East Coast. But in The City Different, history runs centuries deeper. Take the Oldest House on De Vargas Street. Its adobe foundations may date back to the 1200s, built by Pueblo peoples long before European colonists arrived. Later, the Spanish layered their own adobe and beams on top. Inside, you’ll even find a coffin and the infamous headless skeleton of Juan Espinosa — a plaster display tied to the local legend that he was beheaded in the 1600s after buying a bad love potion from two witches. Grisly? Yes. But it’s one of the many stories that give this house its haunted reputation. Just steps away on the Plaza stands the Palace of the Governors, built in 1610 under Spanish colonial rule. Today, it’s recognized as the oldest continuously used public building in the United States. Its adobe walls have served as a palace, fortress, Mexican command po...