Seton Village, NM

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. Seton Village 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. The district includes the remains of Seton's 32-room home and other residential and educational buildings constructed mostly between 1930 and 1945. Seton Village is within Santa Fe Public Schools. The short version is that Seton Village carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Seton Village: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Seton Village was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965. Seton Village is home to Seton Institute, including the Woodcraft League.