Flagpole installation inSanta Fe, NM

Flagpoles in Santa Fe

A state capital and an art and tourism market of national size, working at about 7,000 ft under an ordinance that governs style and material as well as height. We cover Santa Fe and the Santa Fe County area, including the Plaza and the Palace of the Governors, Canyon Road, the Railyard, the Capitol and the state agency complex, Museum Hill, the Guadalupe district, Cerrillos Road and the St. Michael's Drive corridor.

Wind here. Santa Fe sits in a high, dry and thin-aired area, which works out to roughly 105 mph under the code your town uses. That figure decides how wide and how thick the pole has to be, so we check it against your address before we quote. Santa Fe is a review job before it is an engineering job. Work inside the historic districts goes to the Historic Districts Review Board, which weighs height, proportion, texture and material, and that approval comes before the building permit rather than after it. Some requests clear at the counter and some go to a hearing, so ask which yours is at the start rather than at the end. The one nobody sees coming is underground: much of the old city sits in an archaeological review district, and a flagpole footing is ground disturbance, which can call for a survey before the hole is opened. Above ground the wind figure is unremarkable, so it is winter ice on the pulley and hard sun at this altitude that pick the hardware, and stainless on an anodized shaft is the sensible start.

Most of the people who call us from Santa Fe are hotels and inns, galleries and restaurants, state agency buildings, museums and foundations, private schools, churches and historic-district homeowners.