Santa Fe Real Estate Guide January 2015

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Classic Charm in Vista Redonda70-B Vista RedondaSited on 6.62 extremely private acres high on a ridge in Vista Redonda, this approximately 4,460-square-foot double-adobe home is filled with northern New Mexico charm. Highlights include an open kitchen and dining area, an elegant living room opening to a spacious sunset portal, a roomy master suite, and two comfortable second-story bedrooms with private baths. Soothingly cool plaster walls, brick and hardwood flooring, classic pitched ceilings, and handsome woodwork and paneling creating a magical, relaxed, and unaffected ambience.

$1,495,000 MLS #201401007

Welcoming, Elegant, Light-Filled Home437 Avenida Primera South

Full of wonderful light, this welcoming Estancia Primera home is ideal for relaxed day-to-day living or gracious entertaining. It features formal living and dining areas; a comfortable master suite with a luxurious bath, custom walk-in closet, and impressive mountain views;

a secluded guest bedroom and bath; a study; an expertly outfitted kitchen; an oversized two-car garage with built-in storage; an extensive portal with two water features; and a

charming one-bedroom guesthouse.

$1,575,000 MLS #201405427

Unique North Summit Retreat1233 North Summit Drive

Beautifully sited on a premium lot in the North Summit, this architecturally stunning two-level adobe home has an organic style with pleasing natural

curves. Perfect for gracious living and entertaining, it includes 7,200 square feet of heated space, four bedrooms, four and one-half baths, multiple indoor and

outdoor living areas, a four-car garage with storage, and majestic views.

$1,450,000 MLS #201402398

Secluded Eastside Escape500 Camino Sin NombreDown a quiet private Eastside lane, this delightful home features a welcoming living room, a formal dining area, a charming kitchen with high-end appliances, two comfortable bedrooms, a den, spacious baths and closets, and a two-car garage. The highlight of the home is a tranquil landscaped courtyard, which includes a dining portal, a hot tub, a fireplace, and an enviable grilling area.

$1,400,000 MLS #201403009

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1000 HILLCREST $1,650,000This remodeled contemporary on one in-town acre has anopen-concept kitchen, dining room, and living room withSangre de Cristo panoramas and a deck. The one-bedroomguesthouse is a private oasis. mls# 201403652

PANORAMIC VIEWS

540 EAST ALAMEDA $1,495,000Meticulously renovated, this historic estate near Canyon Roadand the Plaza features a Spanish-tile roof, a private brick drive-way, a billiards room and bar, and a wine cellar and tastingroom. mls# 201404974

NEW PRICE - EASTSIDE

41 VIOLET CIRCLE $1,495,000This is a rare opportunity. Priced well below its constructioncost, this fabulous compound on two hilltop acres includes athree-bedroom soft contemporary home and private three-bedroom guesthouse. mls# 201404233

LAS CAMPANAS

85 AVENIDA FRIJOLES $549,000Former award-winning and HGTV featured home featuresdazzling views and an open floor plan. The upper level mastersuite has its own private balcony. Loft area, two master suitesplus third bedroom/studio. mls# 201405404

NEW LISTING - ALDEA

832 CALLE DAVID $760,000SweepingSangre deCristo views, an open floor plan, three bed-roomsuites, anoffice, anda two-car garageadd to the appeal ofthis new 2,841-square-foot contemporary home on 1.55 privateacres. mls# 201401382

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111 AVENIDA DE LAS CASAS $899,000Incredible views from this perfectly located condo in the gatedCasas de San Juan subdivision. Large open living and outdoorspace, perfect for entertaining. Beautifully landscaped withviews of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. mls# 201404271

CASAS DE SAN JUAN

1 CAMINO BARRANCA $575,000Beautiful corner lot inAldeadeSantaFe, newsingle-level 3-bed-room, 3-bath home with easy access to the 599 bypass. Primelocation offers beautiful mountain and sunset views. Great out-door portal. mls# 201405314

NEW LISTING - ALDEA

46 CERRO BLANCO ROAD $475,000Beautiful home minutes from Eldorado offers a dramaticfoyer, hand-troweled plastered walls, open airy kitchen, withadjoining family/living room with a kiva fireplace. Generouscabinetry and breakfast bar. mls# 201404932

NEW LISTING - LAMY

64 AMBERWOOD LOOP $1,125,000Las Campanas Territorial style. Elegant and beautifully de-signed on the 7th fairway of the Sunrise Golf Course. Fullylandscaped 1.84 acres. With Wolf, SubZero, granite and built-in outdoor grill. mls# 201405347

NEW LISTING - LAS CAMPANAS

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SOPHISTICATED &WARMCONTEMPORARY DESIGN

830 East ZiaA tasteful and elegant contempo-rary home with 3,000 square feet,three bedrooms, office and two-baths on one acre. Well located

off Old Santa Fe Trail, minutes tothe Plaza. Gated, storage spaces,

comfortable and private.$650,000

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CONTEMPORARY SANCTUARY64 Rancho de San Juan Road

Retreat to a contemporarysanctuary with sophisticated

finishes andmagnificent views on15 acres. Built in 2004 with 3,526sq ft, custom furnishings, portales

and patios in gated Rancho deSan Juan.

$1,100,000 mls# 201405460

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LAS CAMPANAS VIEW LOT109 Graythorn Drive, Lot 117Spacious 1.66 acre Las Campa-nas lot with Sangre de Cristo andSandia mountain views locatedin Estates I with easy access toSanta Fe and the Clubhouse. Thelarge, elevated building site offersdramatic views and privacy.$100,000 mls# 201401966

DISTINCTIVE SANTA FE STYLE7 Willa Cather

Sophisticated home with con-temporary flair. Features an openliving area, split floor plan and a

lovely patio. Enjoy 3+ bedrooms,3 baths with 2,500 sq ft and 2-cargarage on 1.5 acres. Built in 2008.

$575,000 mls# 201402613

AFFORDABLE ELEGANCE1566 Sipapu LaneYoung, quality home with SantaFe style, centrally located toeverything. Built in 2007 withan open floor plan, 1,586 sq ft, 3bedrooms, 2 baths, master suiteupstairs with deck and Sangre deCristo mountain views.$285,000 mls# 201404181

SCULPTURAL POETRY8 Blue Jay CourtA poetic property located in theembrace of Timberlake Ranchwith endless outdoor pleasures isa 2,600 sq ft custom home withthree bedrooms and three baths,built in 1998 and located on 11.78private acres.$399,000 mls# 201400909

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Neil D. Lyon, CRB, CRS, GRI505.954.5505 • 505.660.8600 cell • [email protected]

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NEIL LYON GROUP2014 CLOSED TRANSACTIONS

137 Calle VentosoWest (B) $1,395,000

791 Paseo del Florencio (S) $899,000

431 & 435Arroyo Tenorio (B) $2,325,000

23 Rising Moon (S) $795,000

960 Old Santa Fe Trail (SB) $1,600,000

310 Delgado Street (B) $1,150,000

2101 Foothills Road (S) $1,495,000

21 Ridgetop Circle (B) $1,550,000

821 Camino Vistas Encantada (S) $660,000

Spirit Rock Ranch (B) $1,170,000

49 Calle San Martin (B) $1,395,000

616 East Alameda, Unit C (B) $1,337,000

46 Hollyhock Circle (S) $997,000

127 Duran Street (B) $455,000

144 Gonzales Road, Unit 5 (S) $550,000

14 Vista La Esperanza (B) $698,000

74 Lodge Trail (S) $1,545,000

10 Sonrisa Court (S) $699,000

144 Gonzales Road, Unit 7 (B) $540,000

35 Koshari (S) $859,000

UNDER CONTRACT19 Entrada Descanso, Lot 878 (S) $55,000

Prices are listing prices at time of saleS = represented Seller, B = represented Buyer

January 2015

2014 was an “interesting” year. As I write this letter in early December the Dow Jones Industrial Average iscautiously marching towards 18,000. Interest rates are low… in the 3.25% to 4.25% range, dependent uponthe particular terms of a loan. Our biggest feeder markets are experiencing very strong economies. Homeprices are at or near their post-recession lows. The number of properties on the market is more than suf-ficient for buyers to have plenty of great choices.

We were set up for a very strong year of recovery. After the first quarter we were off to a blazing start. Thena (not so) funny thing happened. Our recovery lost steam and we experienced three quarters of restrainedactivity, which will cause the market to end the year very similarly to 2013. In the $2,000,000+market, SantaFe will see about the same number of closed sales as we experienced in 2013. Approximately 1 eachmonth.In the $1,000,000 – $2,000,000 category, Santa Fe will experience approximately onemore sale every twomonths. In the $500,000 to $1,000,000 category, the market will end up generating about 3 more sales eachmonth as compared to 2013.

The very positive news is that Santa Fe is again poised for a very strong year. The key factors are in place andwe saw spurts of increased activity late in 2014.We think this bodes very well for 2015.

2014 was a very good year for the Neil Lyon Group. Our sales activity was about as we expected.And our ex-pectations are always high.Wemade some significant refinements in our marketing approach and we blazedsome new territory in how we advertise and promote our listed properties, and in the services that we provideto our buyers.

We had a significant milestone in 2014, with Vanessa Rios y Valles celebrating her 10th year with my Team.Vanessa continues to provide incredible value and service to our clients and customers, evidenced by thealways-predictable praise she earns from those with whomwe work.Michaelene Sargent, approaching 2years onmyTeam, continues to provide very intelligent and competent brokerage services to our many buy-ers and sellers. And with Lauren Robertson providing primarily web-basedmarketing and advertising supportfor our listed properties, the capacity of the Neil Lyon Group reached a new level in 2014.

As we wrap up 2014 and put a bow on the year, I have very similar feelings to those I had last year at this time.And in other past years at this time, for that matter. I am very grateful to the members of the Neil Lyon Group,I am proud to be a part of Sotheby’s International Realty (having just celebrated 30 years with the company),and I am extremely thankful to our many clients and customers who call upon us, in many cases time aftertime, to provide themwith our expert services as they buy and sell in Santa Fe. It is truly an honor. And aswe celebrate the many successes of 2014, we are very mindful of the important work that still needs to becompleted on behalf of our many clients, as they look to sell their Santa Fe properties or to purchase in SantaFe, and become a part of our great community.

Wishing everyone a 2015 full of good health, good fortune and ample time to do all that makes us happy,satisfied and help improve our communities.

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ON THE COVERShadows stripe a wall at anaward-winning house in theGalisteo Basin Preserve. Seestory on Page 39.PHOTOGRAPH by

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20 Building permits34 Recent home/land sales

• In the Illuminations feature last month, the price of the “LightBench” offered by Molecule Design was incorrect. It is $790, not$450.

• Regarding last month’s story about the New Mexico Real Es-tate Commission, Richard Mares, who served on the commissionfor 10 years, called to clarify that there are over 11,000 real-estatelicensees in New Mexico and only about 52 percent of those areRealtors. “The public needs to understand that the Real EstateCommission does not belong to a Realtor association,” Mares said.“The word Realtor does not appear in New Mexico’s licensinglaw; it is just an association. I want the public to know they have aplace to go if they have a complaint about a licensee, whether it’s aRealtor or not.”

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152 BARRANCA ROAD $995,000Only minutes from the historic Plaza, this custom-built Yard-man home offers unique architectural design and privacy in ahigh-desert setting with spectacularmountain vistas. Lovinglymaintained, 3BR, 4BA. mls# 201405457

1449 NEVADO RIDGE $1,149,000Imagine a contemporary aerie set within the confines of SantaFe’s Summit, perfectly poised between themajestic mountainviews of the ski basin and thewarmth and activity of Santa Fe’sPlaza. 3BR, 2.5BA. mls# 201405327

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ARROYO HONDO ESTATEPARADISE

This gated 8.5-acre ArroyoHondo estate includes a6,000-square-foot, four-bed-room home; a two-bedroomguest house; a portal; a pool;patios, courtyards, and decks;stables, and art and photo stu-dios.#201404185 $2,475,000

WALK DOWNTOWN FROMGREATVIEWS

Views of mountains and bluesky can be enjoyed from thisclassic open-concept homeblocks from thePlaza andCan-yon Road. The sensible, light-filled floor plan includes 3BRand 3BA, and two large viewdecks. #201402472 $799,000

SANTA FE-STYLETUSCAN PALAZZO

A Santa Fe Tuscan-style palaz-zowith Sangre deCristo views.Uniquehouseandguest housenext to the Santa Fe Operain prestigious Casas de SanJuan. Gorgeous new diamondfinish plaster throughout.#201401580 $1,595,000

CASA ESTRELLAOn a hillside with panoramas,this villa encourages luxuri-ous living with its indoor andoutdoor kitchens, lavish mas-ter suite, plaster and marblefloors, tall ceilings, fireplaces,and skylights. #201403474$1,525,000

VIEW HOUSE ANDGUESTHOUSE

A gated sanctuary offeringpeaceful seclusion, moun-tain views, and a comfortableenvironment. 3,600-square-foot, 3BR, 3BA main houseand 1,200-square-foot guesthouse. Office, gym, studio,storage, garage. #201305054$795,000

SPECTACULAR VIEWS ONTHE NORTHSIDE

4,218 sq ft view house on 1.3acres near the Governor’sMansion with 4BR, 3BA, twooffices, two patios, and spec-tacular wraparound viewsfrom all major rooms. Privacy,convenience, plus location.#201401085 $695,000

31 CAMINO DE LOSMONTOYAS

This impeccable, thoroughly wonderful four-bedroom, five-and-a-half bath Territorial-style home on 5.4 acres includes a win-ning combination of exquisite Sangre de Cristo mountain views,convenient location, and expansive fenced and walled grounds.

The exceptional master suite has fireplace, exercise studio andtwo walk-in closets. Also featured are an upscale center islandkitchen with adjoining breakfast/family room, remarkable diningroom and fantastic media/game room.

Entirely one level except for a stunning upstairs fourth bed-room/office suite. Impressive room sizes, high beamed ceilings,three fireplaces, customwall treatments andmultiple banks ofFrench doors contribute to the fabulous, stylish environment.

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A REALTOR SINCE 1992 AND CONSISTENTLY IN THETOP 5% OF BROKERS IN SANTA FE.AGGRESSIVE, INTELLIGENT, ETHICAL.Born in Pueblo, CO, Bob has a BA in Mathematics and Philosophyearned while a Benedictine monk, an MA in Art from the U of North-ern Colorado, and a Doctorate in Art Education fromArizona State U.He has been a professor at the U of Northern Colorado, Ohio State U,U of Arizona, and Boston U (where he was Director of the Program inArtisanry). He has been president of the San Antonio Art Institute and

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1402 CERRO GORDO $3,500,000An incredible historic Eastside adobe, Wolf Bros. remodel withimpeccable taste. Gracious dining and living room, open kitch-en, andmaster bedroomwith sitting room. #201400959

830 EL CAMINITO $999,500This renovated Eastside adobe has 3BR, Viking appliances, fire-places, Southwestern details, AC, radiant heat, beautiful land-scaping, a 1-car garage, and off-street parking. #201403559

TRAVIS LUXURY RANCH | 12 Avenida de Rey | $14,700,000This fabulous 220-acre luxury ranch offers every imaginable amenity as well as breathtakingmountain views, andit is only 20minutes to the Plaza. Highlights include an 8,750-square-foot three-bedroomadobemain residence, aguesthouse, a television production studio or gymnasium, a bowling alley and shooting range, stables that includeliving quarters, andmultiple garages. #201401257

1379 CERRO GORDO $629,000This 3BR, 3BA, 2,200 sq ft house features high quality SantaFe style details, light, and color. Included is an office, Saltillotile, and a lush 2/3 acre lot with beautiful views. #201303795

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15 FORT DEFINA ROAD $299,000This charming 3BR, 2BA home, plus office wasbuilt with attention to quality and loads of SantaFe style: vigas, Satillo tile, plastered bancos,and adobe-style fireplace. #201304008

16 CHICOMAAVENUE, ABIQUIU $499,000Artist’s Adobe Dream! This 3-building com-pound is beautifully designed and executedwith the finest Japanese-style aesthetics andcraftsmanship. #201300832

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OUTSTANDING CONTEMPORARY80West Golden Eagle $870,000

An outstanding example of contemporary design, this home has been lovinglymaintained by its original owner.Walking distance from the clubhouse and the fitnesscenter, the 3,375-square-foot residence offers three bedrooms and baths, a stylishkitchen, xeriscaped gardens, andmagnificent attention to detail throughout.With itsclean lines, intriguing angles, well-lit living spaces, and handsome hardwood floors,it is sure to appeal to any buyer with an appreciation for true contemporary style.#201404867

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ARCHITECTURALBEAUTY107 Paseo Del Conejo $1,100,000

Designed and built by Parade of Homes award winner Frank Yardman Construc-tion and located on 2.5 acres minutes from downtown Santa Fe, this architecturalbeauty has a traditional pitched roof andmountain vistas. The spacious open floorplan features soaring ceilings, wood floors, casual living and dining areas, a den witha fireplace, a portal, a private master wing with a walk-in closet and luxurious bath, aseparate two-bedroom guest wing, and a sumptuously appointed gourmet kitchen.#201404774

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851 OLD SANTA FE TRAIL $1,300,000In a wonderful location on the Old Santa Fe Trail and blocksfrom the Plaza, this beautiful handcrafted 4,200-square-foothome with guest house is an enchanted treasure and a pri-vate oasis with a gated entrance. #1201404463

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1 ALTURA VISTA $559,500Marvel at the custom features this lovely single-level homehas to offer. Nestled in the unique Aldea community, this2,159 sq. ft. home is balanced and comfortable. 2BR plus a1BR, 1BA casita. #201404051

84 LA PAZ LOOP $399,000Charming home with warmth, character and beauty. Thisdarling home has 3BR, 2BA, upgraded kitchen, mature land-scaping, and great views. A lovely open floor plan with lots ofnatural light, and rooms that open onto a beautiful outdoorspace. #201405567

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45 CAMINO COSTADINO $525,000Beautifully customized, artistically fash-ioned residence in Dos Griegos in a delight-ful setting with big trees and picturesqueviews. High ceilings and attractive finishesin a great floor plan. #201404690www.45CaminoCostadino.com

43 CERRO BLANCO ROAD $829,000Designed for entertaining and worry-freeliving, this stunning contemporary homeoffers fabulous living spaces, views fromevery window, great kitchen, luxuriousowner’s suite, two offices, and 2BR, 2BAguest quarters. #20140163743CerroBlanco.com

1417 GALISTEO STREET $695,000Marvelous in-town living! Superb 4BR, 4BA,plus office, 3,400 sq ft residence on well-located half acre. Excellent floor plan withopen public areas, great kitchen, lots oflight, dual master closets, central AC, heatedgarage, and awonderful portal. #2014033391417Galisteo.com

1985CERROSCOLORADOS $985,000Gorgeous four bedroom, five bath homewithbeautiful finishes, wood floors, formal dining,great kitchen, luxurious master bath, dualclosets, family room, open floorplan leadsto wonderful outdoor living, spacious portalwith views, and 3-car garage. #2014044191985CerrosColorados.com

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9 TRAILS END COURT $895,000Enjoy graceful living in this impeccableSouthwestern home situated on over nineacres in a fabulous location in a gatedneighborhood just minutes from the Plazain downtown Santa Fe. Striking mountainviews. 2-stall horse barn. #2014025009TrailsEnd.com

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79 MOUNTAIN TOP ROAD $450,000Amazing setting in the tall pines with bigrock outcroppings and awell-builtmountainresidence featuring fantastic views. This2BR, 2BA home has wonderful living spacewith panoramic vistas and lots of great light.#20140538979MountainTop.com

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587CAMINOMONTEBELLO $755,000Lovely and comfortable 3BR, 3BA Pueblo-style home on a quiet cul-de-sac has beauti-ful Sangre de Cristomountain views. Kitchenwith fireplace and casual dining/sitting area.Formal dining, living room with fireplaceopens to private walled courtyard with fire-place.Minutes to Plaza.587CaminoMontebello.com

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2 HAMPTON ROAD $539,000Lovely adobe home in the southeast foot-hills has fabulous views and amazing rockoutcroppings! Thoroughly refurbished withbeautiful tile floors, 2 kiva fireplaces, excel-lent kitchen, family room/study,office/guestroom, and steam shower. #2014042682HamptonRoad.com

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6WINDSTONE $315,000Former model with abundant upgrades. Radiant in-floor heat,refrigerated air, heated 2-car garage, tall ceilings, gas fireplace,vigas in living/dining area, and gas cooking. #201403834

1015 DUNLAP STREET $295,000Beautifully kept in a great convenient location. 2BR, 2BA ado-be with detached garage andmature trees. Upgraded electric,remodeled kitchen, sloped torchdown roof. #201403734

1706 PAINTED SKY $449,000Come enjoy gracious living space and lovely views in this 3BR,2BAhome. Las Lomas, jewel of the westside, offers convenientliving with city light and Sangre views.

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Prospero Año Nuevo Estimados Amigos y Clientes!With heartfelt thanks to all my Buyers & Sellers for your friendship and business in 2014.

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The old pattern of living in one home for themajority of our lives has changed. Nowadays lifetakes us downmany paths. If the elements of yourjourney through 2015 require the services of aseasoned real estate broker, please call me so wecan work together. My knowledge of the marketand an early start will give you the necessary edgeto accomplish a successful transaction.

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138 AVENIDA FRIJOLES $599,0003BR, 3BA, 2,500 sq.ft.Aldea home built in 2009withmany up-grades and A/C. Opposite recorded open space. #201404801

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When approaching this authentic Southwestern house/guest-house, one has the serene feelingthat they are finally in the Santa Fe of their dreams. 10 Miners Trail is everything that Santa Fe isfamous for: classic adobe construction, endless views, architectural style with vigas , brick flooring,arched doorways, 5 fireplaces, a beautiful view-filled courtyard with a large water feature andcolorful koi, and seemingly endless acres of privacy.The main house is 2,900 sq. ft. with 3 bedrooms,2 1/2 baths (a 4th bath is plumbed and ready to go). The 1,000 sq. ft. guest house is a short strollaway, and could be a fabulous art studio. #201405235

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Univest Rancho Viejo LLC, 34Calle Agua Clara. $91,989.Michael Rosanbalm, 8 PuntaDel Cazador. $420,000.Sandra Lord-Gilbert, 45 West-ern Rd. $15,000.

Homewise Inc., 14 Via Optima.$196,121.— 16 Via Optima. $99,999.— 17 Via Optima. $209,000.Jose Ocampo, 4B Ocaso Dr.$225,000.Cristi & Kathryn Branum-Shel-ley, 15 Rocky Slope Dr. $800,000.Barry Seldin, 17 Grey Wolf. $1.1million.Fidelphio Gomez, 10 Cam.Archuletas. $200,000.

Tierra Concepts Inc., 58 PaseoAragon. $570,000.— 60 Paseo Aragon. $590,000.

Philip Alarid, 616 E. AlamedaSt. $280,000.

Silvio Lopez, 207 Ricardo Rd.$125,000.Pulte Development of NM, 3069Floras Del Sol St. $234,313.— 3114 Floras Del Sol St.$125,332.— 3116 Floras Del Sol St.$125,332.— 3117 Floras Del Sol St.$152,794.— 3120 Floras Del Sol St.$125,332.

— 3123 Floras Del Sol St.$177,042.— 3296 Floras Del Sol St.$177,042.Homewise Inc., 7309 Rio DelSol. $176,355.— 7312 Rio Del Sol. $171,090.— 7325 Ave. El Nido. $192,430.Palo Duro Homes, 5238 Via DelCielo. $220,000.— 5257 Via Del Cielo. $220,000.

Building permitsSANTA FE COUNTY buildingpermits issued from mid-No-vember to mid-Decemberincluded the following: Building permits issued by the

CITY OF SANTA FE duringthe month of November includ-ed the following:

We frequently venture into the realmof fabric and its many facets. For manyfurnishings projects, we start conceptdevelopment by sifting through our spe-cialty fabric bins (sorted by color), pullinga handful that speaks to us. We spreadthem out on the work table to play andprune our selections, until we feel we havecaptured the visual essenceof the client and project. Thisbecomes our start.

We choose to begin with fab-rics because they immediatelyinduce a feeling. Their textures,colors, and patterns tell a story,whether formal or casual, boldor subtle, layered or simple.They recall associations to yourmother’s living-room drapery,your childhood bedspread,or your favorite artist’s work.Sometimes one beloved specialfabric becomes inspiration forthe rest of the room and leadsthe charge. This fabric shouldhave presence in the space, befront and center, maybe foraccent pillows or a headboard.

After pulling a variety offabrics, we consider specificfurniture pieces for which theywould be appropriate, for ex-ample seating, drapery, pillows,headboards, and bedskirts.

Different applications call fordifferent types of fabric dura-bility, construction, and weight.Upholstered pieces that receive

high use such as sofas, dining-chair seats,and lounge chairs require a heavy-dutyfabric. Protective finishes such as Scotch-gard, Teflon, or Nanotex can be profes-sionally applied to fabrics to give them alonger lifespan. Printed or embroideredfabrics of ligher weight are perfect forpillows, drapery, and dining-chair seat

backs. That being said, sometimes a light-er fabric should be knit-backed to give itextra strength for use on a medium-useupholstery piece. Most fabrics are subject-ed to the Wyzenbeek or Martindale Meth-od abrasion or rub tests, both of whichindicate how quickly a fabric shows wear.Their score on this test (usually printed on

the fabric tag) indicates its idealtypes of use.

Pattern layering can be funto experiment with and addvisual interest to a space. Textiledesigner Sherri Donghia said, “Idress homes the way I dress my-self – layers and collages, bitsof old things mixed with new,like a patchwork. Eclectic styleis hard to achieve, but it’s alwayspersonal.” You cannot go wrongwith fabric selection if you fol-low a few simple tips: (1) Varythe scale of fabric patterns; (2)Vary type of pattern (i.e. floral,stripe, check) to create interest-ing contrast; and (3) Stick witha color palette. It could be asophisticated use of color froma piece of artwork or an antiquetextile, or just keep it simplewith one color and neutrals,but whatever you do, stick withyour story. If you happen to bea more savvy fabric person, thefun is limitless, mixing differentstyle floral, paisley and checks,stripes with stripes, etc., but itdoes take an artful eye.

Adding fabric-covered pieces not onlyvisually softens a room, but adds acousticvalue as well. If you have a space wherethere is a lot of sound reverberation, oftenit is because all surfaces are hard mate-rials, so adding something upholsteredcreates opportunities for trapping sound.Mohair, boucle or felted fabric are thickerand have pockets for absorption, as op-posed to those with a shiny or flat “hand”— the way a fabric feels to the hand.

The fabric world is vast, but is a veryexciting place to explore. If it feels over-whelming, a professional interior designercan help navigate the course to create apalette and aesthetic that speaks to you.

Heather Van Luchene, ASID andSteffany Hollingsworth, ASID are partnersin HVL Interiors, LLC, an interior designfirm offering professional residential andhospitality design services. Both are NewMexico licensed interior designers. Theycan be reached at (505) 983-3601 or [email protected].

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TWO PARADOXES OF SETTLEMENTFailed footings and massive movement are often associatedwith water from broken utility lines, drip irrigation systems or rainfall.During the current drought it has been different: The extraordinarily dryweather has resulted in the desiccation of soils that, as they shrink, place stresson the loads imposed on them.

As counter-intuitive as settlement caused by the absence of moisture seems,there is another seeming paradox emerging from the pattern of failures we areobserving: It is newer houses that are failing far more frequently than olderones. Our largest underpinning jobs on existing adobe homes have been forhouses that are less than 15 years old. Huge remediation expenses leave newhomeowners feeling legitimately cheated.

You may reasonably ask how this can be, given that building standards andcodes are more stringent now than they were 50 or even 20 years ago.

Here is part of the answer: An older adobe tends to be characterized by asingle story, few and typically small window and door openings, and a lowroofline. The tendency now is to increase the height and build sensuouslythick walls broken by lots of large openings. Modestly sized vigas have givenway to massive, whole trees. Concrete has replaced wood as a bond beam. Inshort, houses are heavier and more brittle now.

If you love your new house even though it is betraying you, or if you want tobuild a new home, we can help keep it honest with helical piers or micropiles.

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*Club Membership subject to Club approval. Club Membership offering expires December 31, 2014.This promotionalmaterial is not intended to constitute an offering in violation of the lawof any jurisdiction. Lot reservations orconditional sales onlymaybe currentlyoffered in certain neighborhoods.No binding offer to sell or lease this propertymay be made or accepted prior to delivery of a disclosure statement for the property that complies with applicable state law, including the NewMexicoSubdivision Act. These materials and the features and amenities depicted herein are based upon current development plans, which are subject to change without notice. All lot ownersare eligible to apply for membership to the private clubs; however, lot ownership is separate from club membership and does not provide any guarantee of acceptance. Additionalmembership fees and restrictions apply. Prices are subject to change without notice. ©2014 Las Campanas Residential Holdings, LLC and Las Campanas Realty, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Three bridgesin Santa Fedesignated‘significant’By Paul Weideman

ON OCT. 28, THE CITY’S HISTORICDISTRICTS REVIEW BOARD ACTEDQUICKLY ON A TRIO OF PROPOSALSFROM THE OLD SANTA FE ASSOCI-ATION. The H-Board designated threedowntown bridges as historically “signifi-cant,” the highest level of protection afterthe “landmark” status that is held by just afew structures such as Rosario Chapel andthe Gross Kelly Warehouse. Newly desig-nated are the 1934 Don Gaspar Bridge andthe 1928 Delgado Street Bridge over theSanta Fe River, and the 1920 Bridge of theHidalgos over the Arroyo Mascaras.

“This move of ours was meant as aproactive move to place the bridges underenhanced protection in order to be a stepahead of [Santa Fe’s Department of] PublicWorks, should they be desirous in the fu-ture of demolition and widening, as was thecase with the Defouri Street Bridge,” saidOSFA board member John Eddy.

The H-Board was presented with aHistoric Cultural Property Inventory foreach bridge. The reports, by architecturalhistorian John W. Murphey, FirstLightConsulting, are full of fascinating detail, afraction of which is presented here.

The precedents of the Don GasparBridge/El Puente de Los Conquistadoresinclude a wooden span and then a stonearch bridge that was constructed efficientlyin 1902 using convict labor. It was adequateuntil traffic from both residents and tour-ists in the late 1920s began to overwhelmits narrow roadway. After crews removedthe old, stone bridge, they put up special“cribbing” formwork along the outer edgeof the spandrel walls, assembled an intri-cate frame of reinforced steel, then pouredthe concrete floor.

The bridge’s construction was related toa New Deal program to improve municipaltransportation during the Great Depres-sion. It was built with a wide roadway torelieve congestion at the College Street— now Old Santa Fe Trail — intersectiona block or two east. (That width, and its de-

signed ability to carry a 15-ton live load,are reasons why the bridge has served thecity well for more than 80 years.)

The bridge, of rigid-frame design, wassupposed to harmonize “with the Spanishtype of architecture peculiar to this vicin-ity.” Murphey said the parapet or railingwas designed by architect Trent Thomas(who also worked with Isaac Rapp onLa Fonda and with Carlos Vierra on theartist’s own house in the second decade ofthe 20th century). “Even though it doesn’tlook like much to the uneducated eye,it’s kind of important because it might bethe only Spanish Pueblo Revival bridge,”he said with a laugh. “It’s quite heavy andparapetlike, like a Spanish-Pueblo build-ing; it just doesn’t have windows.”

A letter to the state highway engineerfrom the journal Engineering News-Re-cord praised the bridge as “one of thebest examples of indigenous architecturethat has come to our attention.” Murpheywrote that the bridge “continued to playan important role as the gateway betweenthe old downtown and the evolvingcapitol district and automobile suburbssouth of the river.” He added that allSanta Fe bridges since “are of the gracefulrigid-frame design, proving the perma-nence and influence of New Mexico’s firstrigid-frame bridge.”

The story of the Delgado Street Bridgebegins with a report of a September 1904flood that swept away several Santa FeRiver bridges, including one at DelgadoStreet. It would be nearly a quarter of acentury before the Santa Fe County gov-ernment found the funds, and summonedthe motivation, to replace it. Murpheydetails the ups and downs of its planning,but a new bridge became more of a pri-ority in the midst of the city’s populationdoubling between 1910 and 1930.

A concrete deck-girder design waschosen. Unlike earlier bridges over theriver, this type “permitted an unsupportedspan, free of a pier that could catch debrisduring flooding. The selected hand railingwas a sturdy post-and-rail design. Signi-fying the urban ambition of the program,the posts and rails were enhanced withrecessed stamped panels and chamferededges. Following the aesthetic of urbanbridges of the period, the railing contin-ued beyond the deck, tracing the radiiof the wingwalls to create a gateway-likeapproach.”

The Delgado Street Bridge is the city’soldest surviving vehicular span over theSanta Fe River.

The third structure honored by theH-Board is the one most residents

PHOTOS BY PAUL WEIDEMANThe Don Gaspar Bridge

The Delgado Street Bridge

The Bridge of the Hidalgos

25JANUARY 2015HOME

Every year at this time brings a new listof New Year’s resolutions as we make newgoals and promise ourselves to changeour behavior in some way for the better.When it comes to being socially net-worked online, we could probably createan endless list of all the activities we thinkwe must be doing. Here are some things Ihear often: I will finally get on Facebook.I will update my profile on Linkedin. Iwill stop Tweeting about everything I do.I will not check Facebook when I am ona date. I will not pin everything I see onPinterest. I will connect with my custom-ers. I will learn Google+. I will remembereverything I post stays online.

By mid-January, we often discoverthere is no time to be present everywhereonline and any new goal set for Facebookor Twitter or Google+ or Pinterest orLinkedIn is often abandoned. Instead ofmaking a list of activities, look at yoursocial networking behavior and changeyour mindset. A mindset shift makesgoals easier to reach. Why?

The way we use the internet and oursocial web to communicate has changedhow we behavior online. Today, 60percent of all internet activity begins on amobile device, according to statistics fromthe American Marketing Association.We are almost becoming comfortablegiving more information about our dailyactivities then less. It is a habit for peopleto post what they like or dislike using ahashtag (#) whether it is about food, thenews, politics or the weather. Others usethe LIKE button habit on Facebook toconnect instead of engaging with a com-ment. We worry about privacy and forgeteverything we post online is public. Areyou becoming addicted to creating a digi-tal story about your life without thinking?Are you speaking like a brand by broad-casting what is for sale and not listeningto your customers? Only you know thoseanswers while others see your behavior.

Have we forgotten social networking isa two-way street? Imagine a new mind-set where connecting and engaging with

people is a more honest and powerful wayto communicate rather than broadcastingeverything happening in your life or busi-ness. Everything you do online sends amessage. This includes if you do not havea presence online. It is important to take amindful approach to your online presencein 2015.

Here are some suggestions for bothyour personal or business activity. Look atwhat people see about you. Do a Googlesearch for you name and company. Lookat what people say. Have a conversation toengage with your friends and customersrather than broadcasting. Listen to whatyour friends and customers are sayingabout themselves and your businesscompetition. Add learning to your socialmedia activity. Schedule time to read,take classes or webinars. Most peoplelearn by doing and making mistakes. Ifsomething worked for you once, it maynot be working now. How we use socialmedia sites changes how they work. Focuson one social network that works for you.

Shift your activity to listening and engag-ing to discover more about your friendsand customers in your social networkingworld in 2015. See you next online.

Emily Medvec (buysantafehomes.com)is a Realtor with Keller Williams. To sell orbuy real estate, call her at 505-660-4541.Emily’s other passion is how social network-ing changes how we communicate. Connectwith her at Facebook/LiveLoveSantaFe andon Twitter at @emilymedvec.

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Another resolution or new mindset?

A detail of the concrete bowstring truss bridge on Grant Avenue

would probably think of first asbeing historically significant: theBridge of the Hidalgos at thenorthern end of Grant Avenue.It was built to provide a directand efficient connection fromthe central city to the highway toTaos and other areas of northernSanta Fe County. City engi-neer Walter G. Turley was theconstruction supervisor on theproject. In an article publishedin Concrete Highway Magazine,Turley “attempted to equate themodern use of concrete to thehistoric use of adobe plaster…This connection between old andnew materials was manifested inthe rough, plaster-like concretecoating of the Bridge of the Hi-dalgos and the rounded elementsof the heavy posts,” Murphywrote.

The bridge type is concretebowstring truss (also known as“rainbow arch”). The splendidlydecorative form peaked in popu-larity a few years after the Santa Fe bridgewas finished in 1920, but not too longafterward fell out of favor as “too costly in

its construction, due to the large amountof steel needed to reinforce the curved andvertical members of the arch.”

It is an interesting coincidence that thebridge had its ceremonial opening duringthe city’s annual Fiesta, serving as a crossing

for a grand parade marchingfrom the Santa Fe Plaza to thededication of the Cross of theMartyrs on Paseo de la Cuma —and both the cross and the newbridge were constructed by theMidland Bridge Company ofKansas City, Missouri.

Murphey did all three bridgereports this summer. Now anindependent architectural histo-rian and consultant, his resuméincludes work for the Texas His-torical Commission (1997-2000),New Mexico Historic Preser-vation Division (2000-2008),National Park Service (2009-2011), and the City of Santa FeHistoric Preservation Division(2011-2014).

“The Old Santa Fe Associationhired me to do a National Regis-ter nomination for the DelgadoStreet bridge, so thought I mightas well throw in, pro bono, formsfor the other two bridges as well,”he told Home. “My personal in-

terest is that they have always been ignored,even though they’re quite important.”

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Barkers invite their vp into partnershipBy Paul Weideman

Warren Sacks, who entered the real-estatebusiness just a decade ago, recently accepteda 20 percent minority interest in Barker Real-

ty|Christie’s International Real Estate. Formerly the firm’svice president, he is also now its chief operations officer.The company, started nearly 50 years ago by LaughlinBarker, is headed by David and Lisa Barker, who bought itin 1985. They retain control. At the announcement madeduring a company party on Dec. 12, the owners made itclear to their brokers and staff that David Barker is notretiring.

“Warren is great in operations and he brings a young,energetic enthusiasm and a lot of in-depth knowledgeabout internet, computer technology and systems,” DavidBarker said. “It just really strengthens what we’re doing herein our company, because it’s all about our customers, andour customers are our associate brokers and their buyersand sellers.”

In an interview, Lisa Barker recalled that Sacks cameto the company straight out of college. “His father, RudySacks, who is our tax attorney, asked if we’d consider givinghim an internship. I said, ‘Rudy, I’ve never had an internbefore. I don’t know what to do with a 20-year-old kid.’

“Warren showed up his first day in a suit and I toldhim to go home and change and I had him clean out thebasement,” she said. “Then I ordered 60 new desk chairs,which came disassembled in boxes and his next task wasto put them all together.” Sacks worked the front desk fora time and later became licensed. Just before the autumn2008 crash, he ran The Alameda condo project that BarkerRealty listed.

“In 2008, we brought Warren into our management fold,”she said. “He just over those years showed such tremendousmanagement and operational capacity, it was a no-brainer.Now we have this sort of knight in shining armor withthe technological, cutting-edge, innovative knowledge ofsomebody who’s 30, and our 35-year veteran Merlin, David.It makes for the most dynamic management scenario in themarketplace.”

The firm’s owners met in Santa Fe when Barker Realtywas housed at Radio Plaza on Marcy Street. Lisa, originallyfrom San Francisco, was working for KTRC Radio. Davidis a fourth-generation Santa Fean. His great-grandfather,N.B. Laughlin, ran out of money in Santa Fe while travelingon horseback from Texas to Colorado and went on to serveon the supreme court for the Territory of New Mexico. Hebegan investing in real estate in the early 1900s. David’sfather, Laughlin Barker, was a U.S. Navy aviator for twodecades before starting out in the real-estate industry.

At the beginning of this millennium, Barker Realty hadabout 20 agents. Today there are 45 — still in line witha desire expressed by the couple in a 1999 profile in thismagazine to maintain the company at a medium size. Butit is growing. In 2012, the realty, located in the historicGross Kelly Warehouse on Guadalupe Street, expanded atthe south end, adding 15 desks. The following year, Barkeraffiliated with Christie’s, increasing its listings visibility

to high-end, international clientele. Now the company ispoised to undertake an expansion that will give it another10 desks. “We are expanding into the space at the north endof the building that now has Station Coffee,” Lisa Barkersaid. “They have many loyal customers, including people

who use the Rail Runner, and it was a hard decision tomake. People are saddened. We tried to find them anotherspace in this building.”

Barker Realty used to have that space and added aninterior wall to create room for tenant Station Coffee. Theremodel will begin on Jan. 1.

“We are growing and I think that is due in part to someof the more innovative things we have provided our brokerswith,” she said. One is the transactions coordinator the firmbrought on to handle all of the detail work after a proper-ty goes under contract. And just last month, Barker alsohired a listings coordinator, who handles all the details ofa new listing, including marketing forms, getting signs in

the ground, and finishing up paperwork. “When I startedin the business,” David Barker remembered, “the purchaseagreement, which was the memorandum of contract, wasone page. Now we have a purchase agreement that’s about15 pages long, with all kinds of disclosures and information

sheets and requirements imposed by the Real Estate Com-mission and the City of Santa Fe; it just goes on an on.”

He said the Sacks promotion “was a natural. No, it’s nota controlling interest in the company, but it’s a significantportion and nobody’s more deserving than Warren, withthe dedication, the hard work, and the changes he’s helpedus make. I think it’s going to help us become a much stron-ger, better company.”

Asked if the recent changes will allow him to relax alittle, Barker responded, “No, this is about what we canprovide that’s more effective for our associate brokers. It’sramping up the game.”

COURTESY PHOTOWarren Sacks (left) with Lisa and David Barker


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By Paul Weideman

The sign at the front entry of the historicNational Park Service building on OldSanta Fe Trail says, “Building access by ap-pointment only.” That’s a new situation forthe adobe office building that has long alsobeen a cultural resource open to the public.It formerly had a superintendent, a traineduniformed staff, a general managementplan, a cultural landscape plan, an interpre-tive plan, exhibits, brochures, and an activeprogram of public education, according to abriefing paper prepared by Jerry L. Rogers.

Rogers is a former National Park Ser-vice (NPS) associate director for culturalresources and Southwest regional director.He is one of a group of people concernedabout the fact that the grand courtyardstructure, built from 1937 to 1939 by theCivilian Conservation Corps (CCC), is nowfor the most part closed to the public. Localpreservationist Alan “Mac” Watson saidthis ad-hoc group has met with staff fromNew Mexico’s congressional delegation. Thegroup’s idea to have the building declared anational historic site or a national mon-ument with displays about the CCC andWorks Progress Administration was takenup by the Santa Fe City Council.

On Oct. 8, the city’s governing bodyadopted a resolution to that effect and for-warded it a week later to Governor SusanaMartinez. The resolution also supportsmaintaining the NPS building’s current staffof approximately 70 employees.

Asked in mid-December about the build-ing’s status, James Doyle with the NationalPark Service Intermountain Region office inDenver said, “We have no plans of shuttingthe building down or reducing staffing.With regards to keeping the building opento public, that’s always been our goal. It’sa historic building with some historicartifacts inside. But we had problems withthe reliability of the security service, so sansany security, we had to tighten down access.It’s still open for tours, but you have to call.We hope after the first of the year at somepoint to be able to reopen to the public.

“There have been moves to redesignate itas the Southwest Regional Office as it usedto be but that is beyond our abilty; Con-gress has directed us how to operate. Butthis is a key operational building. We haveimportant staff there that do both regionaland national work for the Park Service, soit’s an important resource for us.”

At 24,000 square feet, the Park Ser-

vice’s former Southwest Regional Office isprobably the largest adobe office buildingin the country, according to the files at theHistoric Santa Fe Foundation (researchedby HSFF volunteer Debbie Lawrence).The major work force came from CCC

Camp #833 based in Santa Fe. The WorksProgress Administration was responsiblefor artworks and other furnishings. Thecity resolution notes that “The CCC andWPA offered meaningful employmentand cultural uplift to millions during the

Great Depression.” Among the other CCCaccomplishments in this area were the rocklining along the Santa Fe River through thecity, the lodge and shelters at Hyde Park,and Bandelier National Monument’s roadsand dozens of buildings, and the furnitureinside those buildings.

Most of the 200 workers on what thecity’s resolution calls an “outstandingexample of institutional adobe architecture”were men aged 17 to 23 from Hispanicfamilies in the area. For $30 per month, androom and board, the men hand-mixed andformed more than 280,000 adobe bricksfor the walls that are between two and fivefeet thick. They also hand-peeled the pinevigas and made heavy, intricately carvedfurniture for the offices.

Much of the earth for the adobe brickscame from the excavation for the build-ing. Foundation stone was quarried nearCanyon Road. Ponderosa pine logs forvigas and corbels came from the CCC campin Hyde Memorial State Park. Flagstonefor the floors in the lobby and conferenceroom, and for the paving under the court-yard portáles, came from a Pecos ranch.

NPS architect Cecil Doty designed thebuilding in the Spanish-Pueblo Revivalstyle that jibed nicely with the Park Service’sdeveloping “rustic” design aesthetic. Doty’sskill in what is sometimes called “parkitec-ture,” exercised on numerous visitor centersand other NPS buildings, was learned fromNPS architect Herbert Maier, who hiredhim in the early 1930s. The style empha-sizes a relationship to local architecturaltradition and the use of local materials inharmony with the surrounding landscape.For the Santa Fe job, Doty tailored his de-sign to local precedents with help from hisconstruction foreman, artist Carlos Vierra.

Funding came from the WPA FederalArt Project for artworks including ceramicvessels by Maria and Julian Martinez ofSan Ildefonso Pueblo, Lela Gutierrez andEulogia Naranjo of Santa Clara Pueblo,and Agapita Quintana of Cochiti Pueblo;paintings by Victor Higgins and E. Boyd;nearly 50 rugs, most Navajo-made; etchingsby Gene Kloss; and lithographs by B.J.O.Nordfeldt. The Park Service’s regional land-scape architect, Harvey Cornell, designedthe site and courtyard.

For 56 years, beginning in 1939, theOld Santa Fe Trail Building served as theregional headquarters for the National Park

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When you receive your commitment,verify the proposed insured on the sched-ule A. It may be you or another desig-nation. Look for the contract sales priceand compare the loan amount to yourcontract. If it is all cash then no need toworry about the loan amount. The boxesshould be checked for an owner’s titleinsurance policy and loan policy, if notpaying cash. Check the estate or interestin the land described and referred to inthe commitment (fee, leasehold, etc.).Look for a date and time. Look at the landdescription. It should not be an address;it should be a complete legal description.If these items do not appear on your com-mitment Schedule A, you should ask yourattorney, Realtor, and escrow agent whythey are not there.

There are specific title commitmentissues:

Easements: An easement gives personsother than the owner access to or a right-of-way over the homeowner’s property.Easements should be considered, espe-

cially if the buyer is considering changessuch as improvements and use.

CC&R’s and other deed restrictions:The declaration of covenants, conditionsand restrictions for a homeowner’s asso-ciation is recorded against the property.CC&Rs can be enforced by an association,or it may be enforced by the other home-owners. As a buyer, you should carefullyread the CC&Rs and any other docu-ments affecting the property and usage.

Access: Failure of the public records todisclose a right of access to the propertywill be noted in the commitment. Land-locked property may be sold. The lack ofaccess must be disclosed to the buyer.

Military airports: Buyers in the vicini-ty of a military airport will appear on thecommitment.

Judgments: A recorded judgment is alien on all real property. A judgment lienagainst the seller usually must be paidprior to the escrow closing.

Bankruptcy: If the seller has filedbankruptcy, the bankruptcy trustee will

have to approve the sale before escrowclosing. A court order may be necessary.Be prepared for the time involved.

Liens: There are numerous typesof liens that may need to be paid andreleased before the escrow closing. Theseliens may include state and federal taxliens. In a federal tax lien the governmentestablishes its interest in the propertyand any property acquired after the lienis filed.

Endorsements: In addition to the cov-erage available under the title insurance,additional coverage can be obtainedthrough endorsements. You should askfor everything that is available. Thenmake a decision after the explanationfor the products that fit. If they cannotexplain, or if they say, “There are no addi-tional products” then find someone whocan really help you.

Title Insurance Policy: The titleinsurance policy is issued after recording.The title insurance policy does not insurethat a title defect will not occur; it insures

that if a title defect occurred prior to thepolicy date; the buyer will be indemnifiedif the defect cannot be cured.

It is extremely important to read thecommitment completely. Consult withyour attorney. It may be the best moneyyou spend for a lifetime of comfort.

Otis Phillips has been in the title businesssince 1978 and has served as an indepen-dent title agent, in direct office manage-ment, and in the underwriter arena in 14states. Contact him at [email protected] or 505.577.3601.

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Service. In a recent guest column in TheNew Mexican, former State Monumentsdirector José Cisneros said the SouthwestRegion of the National Park Service wasabolished in 1995, “victim to a reorgani-zation.” Cisneros said that a historic site ornational monument designation “may beworth some consideration,” but he favors“the larger effort to restore the building toits former function as a Regional Officeby restoring the Southwest Region to itsposition as the most historic region in theNational Park Service.”

In November, Nancy Meem Wirth, alifelong neighbor of the Old Santa Fe TrailBuilding, wrote that she was “delighted”with the City Council’s recommendation.The practical effect of its closure, shestressed, “has been to deprive our commu-nity of a cultural and aesthetic resource thatwe have long valued.”

A month ago, in another guest piece inthe newspaper, Jerry Rogers said the oldbuilding “simply must remain the funda-mental element of our community life andheritage that it has been for decades. Hedescribed it as “nationally significant for

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its architecture, for its association with thenational park idea, and as an artifact of theHispanic culture whose history is inade-quately recognized in the United States.”

Rogers wrote that the 1906 AntiquitiesAct “authorizes the president to create

national monuments from places in thepublic domain that meet exacting criteriaof significance. The Old Santa Fe TrailBuilding is in the public domain and meetsthese criteria.”

The National Park Service celebrated the

building’s 75th anniversary this sum-mer. About the move to create a CCC/WPAmuseum there, James Doyle said, “Wecertainly wouldn’t oppose that. HoweverCongress directs us to operate the building,we will.”

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“Probably the most challenging partwas the skin on the bottom of the barrels,where we stretched fabric that had to behidden behind the slats. The fabric was

there to give a surface beyond the woodslats that was homogenous. It stretchesthe whole length of the room; that vault is40 feet long, while the master-suite barrel

vault is 30 feet. The slats are also for sounddispersion because a barrel-vaulted ceilingwill focus sound.”

Spears, who had only been in the housefor two months when I visited, emphasizedthat the house was finished, but that thefurnishing and landscaping were not. Shehad been watering native piñons and hadadded ponderosa pines and crabapple trees.She was looking forward to indulging hergreat love for plants in designing and plant-ing her garden, working with the naturallandscape around the house.

She was glad the construction projectwas complete. “I really didn’t have fundoing this, always thinking I should havedone that or if I do this it means I haveto do that. It was so different doing it formyself. For clients, I just tell them what Ithink and they accept it or not. Now, I seemistakes I made, whatever, but all in all Ilike it very much and it’s very livable andPhilip likes it.”

By Paul Weideman

THE HOUSE ARCHITECT BEVERLEYSPEARS DESIGNED for herself and herhusband, Philip Crump, has not won anyformal accolades yet, because it’s brandnew. But there’s no doubt it will be anaward-winner. The residence is a singularexample of contemporized Santa Fe Style,broadly speaking, but it boasts a dominantfeature that relates more to Rome, Morocco,and Mexico: the barrel vault.

“I just like them,” Spears said during ahouse visit in late November. “We go toMexico a lot and many of those 16th-centu-ry churches are just a simple barrel vault.”

There are two barrel vaults, offset. Themain one is over the living room-diningroom-kitchen space and is finished insidewith thin slats of slightly whitened, clearpine. This section of the house is on a crawlspace and the floors are light oak by R.L.Marek & Co., Albuquerque. (The couple’scolorful textiles and paintings — some bySpears — promise to contrast nicely withthe pale woods and walls.) The easternhalf of the house, which holds the mastersuite, is slab-on-grade and the floors areintegrated-color concrete by Scott Golden,Golden-Seibert Co., Santa Fe.

The long south face of the house iswell-glazed to tap the sun’s heat energy inthe wintertime, and at its base is a long,concrete trough pool and fountain. Insidethe great room, the sunlight reflecting offthe water creates a long, shimmering pat-tern that moves during the day across thewalls and the vault ceiling. “When there’svery little wind, it gets very calm; it’s almosthypnotic,” Spears said.

“The passive solar is working great. Theorientation is the optimum for solar, whichis 10 degrees east of south. We have hydron-ic solar for hot water which helps to heatthe house, too, because it’s a Life Breath[hydronic] furnace.”

The architect made a little two-chairnook, part of which is all glass and projectsout beyond the plane of the south wall,immediately adjacent to the pool. “That’s agreat place to sit in the winter and just soakup the sun.”

The house was built by Tierra Concept,Inc. Kurt Faust, one of the company’s prin-cipals, said it was a very interesting project.“It was a challenge, as it always is mixingsteel and wood and figuring how thingsfasten to each other. We were using woodenI-joists in a way Beverley has done before,but the manufacturer said ‘Whaaat?’

Barrel vaults, water feature enliven Spears abode

The Spears kitchen. Below, the architect on the roof with her vaults. Opposite, the south elevation with fountain and pool.

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Ah, New Year’s resolutions. So easy tomake, so hard to keep. There are manystrategies you can employ in 2015 that havethe potential to significantly improve yournet worth. Don’t procrastinate. What youdo in the next month may have long-last-ing impacts.

Refinance. Don’t wait any longer. Beproactive and get your refinancing donenow. Get the low rates while you can. Manypeople assume that they cannot qualify fora home loan. They think they don’t haveenough income, or their home is under-water, or they don’t have enough equity.Don’t assume. Check with your lender thismonth. You may find that there are ways tolower your payments or pay off your homefaster as you take advantage of annualpercentage rates (APRs) in the 3’s and 4’s,even for jumbo loans. If you can’t qualifyright away, find out what you need to do toposition yourself to get approved later thisyear.

Convert an adjustable-rate mortgage toa fixed-rate loan to take advantage of fixed,stable rates. Consider if moving credit-cardand other debt to your home loan is a goodoption for you. Maybe you think you don’twant to borrow more money. But guesswhat? You already have borrowed themoney and chances are your credit-cardrates are in the double digits. If you feelyou are not disciplined enough to overpayyour new, lower-rate mortgage to pay offthe old credit-card debt, then segregate thenew debt with a home equity line of credit(HELOC) to pay it off and get your finan-cial house in order. Either way, refinancingand paying off existing debts may end upsaving you more in the long run.

Get free and clear. Even a loan with arate in the mid 4’s with 28 years remain-ing could be moved to a 20- or 15-yearfixed-rate loan, cutting many years off themortgage and potentially saving your networth tens of thousands of dollars over thelife of the loan. Consolidate your first andsecond mortgages into one new, low, fixed-rate loan. Check with your loan originatorto see how you can merge two mortgageson your home into one.

Cash out equity in your home to buy aninvestment property or second home forretirement. How? Refinance your currentprimary residence and take extra cash outfor the down payment on your additionalhome purchase. We are seeing a combi-nation of low rates and low home prices,but it won’t last forever. Rent your newpurchase and let the payments from yourtenants help pay your mortgage.

Grow your investment for retirementusing short-term rental properties. Userental payments from vacationers as aresource for monthly mortgage paymentson investment properities. For as little as 20percent down you may be able to own theproperty free and clear in 15 years.

Address family matters now while themarket is in your favor. If you are divorcingor need to take former partners off a mort-gage loan, or need to remove yourself as aco-signer on a loan, refinancing now maybe the right move for you.

You’ve heard it for a couple of years now:refi refi refi. Even if you refinanced a fewyears ago, APRs in the 3’s and 4’s warrantone more look as you plan your financesfor the next 10 to 30 years. Don’t wait andbe sorry later. Contact your local lender tosee if you may qualify.

Francis Phillips ([email protected])is senior mortgage loan originator with FirstChoice Loan Services in Santa Fe. He hasserved as director of business developmentfor national mortgage companies. He andhis mortgage partners have funded andbuilt three homes for Santa Fe Habitat forHumanity.

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Let’s focuson that resolve

Ultimately the design was driven by the commitment to passive solarand also the barrel vaults. The barrel vaults provide distinctive inte-rior space while producing an exterior with strong geometric volumesrising above the horizontal parapets. I like that.

I used maple, stainless steel, natural concrete, white-glazed clearpine and drywall painted light grey to create a light-filled sereneinterior which is a good backdrop for furnishings both antique andmodern.

I wanted the house to be contemporary yet understated and re-strained. I wanted it to feel timeless, solid and thick-walled yet opento the south for sun and the west for views. The connection to theoutdoors was paramount: although the house is less than 3,000square feet, there are six exterior doors, each opening onto a portal,patio or stairway to the roof deck.

The feature I most like is the water basin along the south wall whichbounces sunlight into the room and reflects the sky and nearby pinontree. This feature is part of the way the house embraces the sun andbrings the outside into the house. The house reflects my devotion tosky, trees and grasses, fire, water, sunshine and silence.

— Beverley Spears

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Homes391,500981,500

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Frank Applegate left a profoundimpression on the city of Santa Fe and isconsidered by many to be the godfatherof Santa Fe Style. Born into a farmingcommunity in central Illinois in Februaryof 1881, Applegate had established him-self as a serious sculptor by fall of 1914.He trained at the University of Illinoisand then at the Académie Julian in Parisand became a professor at the School ofIndustrial Arts in Trenton, New Jersey.The tale of how he came tolive in Santa Fe starts outlike many other stories, as ashort visit to a little town inNorthern New Mexico.

After deciding to takea year off teaching andtendering his resignation,Professor Applegate packedup his Model T and headedwest. In September of 1921,Frank, his wife Alta, andtheir 10-year-old daughterBetty arrived in Santa Fe fora brief stay on their way toPasadena, California, wherethey planned to spend thewinter. When they arrived in town theycamped in an orchard overlooking thecity during Fiestas. Within a week SantaFe’s charm had captured him and he wasalready negotiating to purchase land tobuild upon.

New Mexico became a state in 1912,so when Applegate arrived in 1921, SantaFe was still very isolated from the restof America. Much of the way of life forSanta Fe’s approximately 7,000 residentswent on much as it had for centuries.English and Spanish were spoken, pesosand dollars were accepted currencies, andthere was a free flow of culture betweenthe Anglo, Spanish, and Pueblo people.Applegate recognized that the western

expansion wouldn’t exclude Santa Fe forlong and he took an immediate interest inpreserving the city’s architecture, culture,and natural beauty.

Once in Santa Fe, Applegate’s life took adramatic turn. He abandoned traditional

sculpture and ceramics and took his artis-tic vision into every aspect of his ever-ex-panding life. Furniture making, woodetching, painting, and writing all flour-ished for Frank. Returning to some of hisoriginal training in architecture, he setout to create a home in the new style thathe saw around him. Blending Spanish Co-lonial and the Pueblo Indian vernaculars,he immediately started construction on ahome for his family. Francisco Romero y

Garcia sold him a piece of landmeasuring 800 by 56 feet for300 pesos. The weather heldout and the Applegate fami-ly was able to move into thehome by December. Built twostories high with adobe brickand styled with a second-storybalcony, buttressed walls, andhand-hewn vigas, this iconicresidence, located at what isnow 558 Camino del MonteSol, is chronicled to be one ofthe best examples of Span-ish-Pueblo Revival architecturein Santa Fe.

Applegate’s friends andcolleagues included Fremont Ellis, AnselAdams, Will Shuster, and Walter Mruk,who were also romantic rebels inspiredby the beauty of the land and the mod-ernist ideas of their time. Applegate builtor remodeled several other homes in the

style he considered “livable sculpture.”His final residence was the renovatedand expanded de la Pena house at 831 ElCaminito. One of the last large Spanishhaciendas, the Frank Applegate Estate,as it is now known, is considered one ofSanta Fe’s most historically and architec-turally significant buildings. He lived hereuntil his untimely death at age 50. Bothof his homes are presently on the marketawaiting the perfect buyer. For moredetailed information regarding FrankApplegate, please refer to Frank Applegateof Santa Fe: Artist & Preservationist byDaria Labinsky and Stan Hieronymus.

Roger and Melissa are Realtors atKW. Call them at 505-699-3112, [email protected], or followthem on Twitter @CarsonandCarson andat www.facebook.com/carsonandcarson.

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AIA-Santa Fe Honor Award: Freezer to Office, by WAMO Studio

Working in ‘a fine madness’By Paul Weideman

In 2012, architect Vahid Mojarrab, WAMO Studio, wontwo sustainability awards — from the U.S. Green BuildingCouncil-New Mexico and from ECOHOME — for anenergy-efficient residence called VOLKsHouse, which hedeveloped in partnership with Jonah Stanford. Mojarrabhopes to break ground this winter on VOLKsHouse 2.0,which he says “will push the technology up to the limit.

“We are doing a high-efficiency, panelized home incor-porating a graywater system not being used in the U.S. andwe’re going to put the whole plan on the website so every-body can just build it, so you don’t have the architect fees.”

In mid-December, the architect won an honor awardfrom the American Institute of Architects-Santa Fe for hisown office, an adaptive reuse project that involved conver-sion of a former Taos Cow Ice Cream freezer.

The 550-square-foot building has an excellent insulationfactor: what used to keep ice cream inside from warm-ing up in the summer now keeps Mojarrab and his staffwarm in the winter and cool in the summer. “It has a greatthermal break: if you don’t have that conductivity, you canmaintain temperature, and that’s our specialty. It was just ametal box inside,” Mojarrab said during a recent visit. “Themetal sheeting is just a veneer. In the summertime it maybe hot outside and you come inside and it’s nice.”

He painted the visible, structural I-beams yellow, addedribbons of white panels that run along the ceiling and wallsto break up the expanses of metal, and used them to anchorlighting units faced with polycarbonate.

“The contractor had some doors and windows in his yardso we salvaged things. That’s why nothing matches here,”he laughed. Clean, affordable Ikea furniture completed theoffice, which has been in use now for a year and a half.

“Our office believes you don’t have to start new for everyproject,” Mojarrab said in an e-mail. “With the uncertaintyof the real estate market, there are many opportunities tore-adapt existing real estate inventory to successful andresponsible projects.”

About five years ago, Mojarrab got involved with theInterfaith Community Shelter and converted (pro bono)the old Pete’s Pets space on Cerrillos Road to serve SantaFe’s homeless population. His studio won a competitionlast year for workforce housing in Clovis. “We re-used andreconfigured five existing buildings to accommodate 15rental units and the community building. These projectsare in-line with our beliefs that there are many ways toaccomplish high-performance ‘green’ building.’”

He talked about the sea change in thinking from the daysof the beautiful, transparent Farnsworth House by Mies vander Rohe and the Philip Johnson Glass House. “We grewup with those as the icons, but that is when energy was nota big concern. Our priorities have changed. As an architectyou feel a social responsibility. Back then it was all aboutdesign. And computers have changed the profession quitea bit. Now when we do the design [with BIM — buildinginformation modeling — software] we can simultaneously

see the energy use. Thecomputer enables you togo places you couldn’teven enter a few yearsago. I can’t wait until thetime when you just thinkabout a structure andyou can see it on yourmonitor. Instead of Goo-gle glasses, you have aGoogle helmet. After all,the brain is just a bunchof electric neurons.”

Mojarrab, educated atCalifornia PolytechnicState University, hasbeen in Santa Fe for 20years. His wife, CarolWare, with bachelor’s degrees in fine art and architecturefrom Rhode Island School of Design, sometimes collabo-rates on her husband’s architectural work. (The firm namewas formed from the first two letters of their last names.)

As Mojarrab continues with value engineering to try toincrease the affordability of VOLKsHouse 2.0 for consum-ers, he’s also looking forward to a major project in PapuaNew Guinea. WAMO was hired by Shepley Bulfinch, Bos-ton, to do the residential component of the Enga Provin-cial Hospital campus in that Oceanian nation. During the

interview, he joked that he was leery about having meetingsabout the project in his humble freezer-office.

Alan Chimacoff, head juror for the recent AIA award,commented, “There’s a fine madness in this project and adelightfully screwy idea, an architect’s dream or an archi-tect’s nightmare, putting an office in a freezer... It’s a greatadvertisement of civic and environmental responsibility:we’re willing to reuse the grungiest of grunge for ourselvesin order to have the opportunity to make better places forothers, as well as a demonstration of the creative potentialof the people who work there.”

The interior and exterior ofthe former freezer

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AIA-Santa Fe Merit Award: Homework magazine, by Suby Bowden + Associates

TWOMORE FIRMSWEREWINNERS IN THE 2014 AIA-SANTA FE DESIGN AWARDSHonor Award: La Fonda room renovation and historic preservation, by Hogan GroupMerit Award: Drury Plaza Hotel remodel, by Barbara Felix Architecture + Design

Architect’s Homework wins awardBy Paul Weideman

A MAGAZINE DELINEATING AFFORD-ABLE-HOUSING NEEDS AND OPPORTUNITIESIN SANTA FE COUNTY was described as “probing andcomprehensive” by the jury chairman for the 2014 designawards of the American Institute of Architects-Santa Fe.“We were not sure if this is ongoing or a stand-alone, andwe didn’t care,” said Alan Chimacoff of the Homeworkmagazine produced by a team led by Suby Bowden + Asso-ciates. “It is essentially a road map to afford the creation ofhigh-quality, affordable architecture for housing and that isa very very noble undertaking.”

Chimacoff said the study inspires an understanding “thatin fact affordable housing doesn’t have to be cheap and badbut in fact it can contribute urbanistically to the quality ofthe architecture of the environment.”

Bowden said the document wasborn out of a 2006 Santa Fe Countyrequest for proposals to study sitesand pick one as an investmenttarget for affordable-housing fundsfrom the U.S. Department of Hous-ing & Urban Development. “Weresponded and in our interviewswe learned that the county has nohousing-needs assessment. Thatwas the first thing we did.”

The assessment was based onsurveys done by RRC Associates,Denver. Then Bowden did a chartthat looked at ownership andrentals, as well as special populations including the pueblosand the homeless. “What was a huge discovery was that theHUD requirements you have to follow for financing andthat both the city and county had required was for 3- and4-bedroom homes, but over 60 percent of the people inSanta Fe County are in a one-bedroom situation: it’s justone or two people. So the county’s affordable-housingprogram shifted in what types of developments they wouldencourage and require, as well as working up to a dialoguewith HUD that the requirements should match local needs,not needs defined in Washington, D.C.”

After interviews with more than 200 people, the firmstudied 58 sites and assessed them for appropriateness ona matrix of factors including size, schools, zoning types,infrastructure, proximity to transportation, and wateravailability. They prioritized four sites: the county’s former

Public Works Department site on GalisteoRoad; a site in Agua Fria Village thatbelonged to Olivia Tsosie, who was willingto donate it to the county; the large SanCristobal site on N.M. 14 that is owned bythe State Land Office; and Rancho Viejo —Bowden said Ike Pino, who was managingthe development at that time, loved theidea of a senior housing project on theRancho Viejo plaza.

Bowden’s team took the Galisteo site, ran it through thematrix, and developed a 120-unit, mixed-income, mixedownership (owners/renters) housing project. She realizedthey needed to create a magazine to make all the informa-tion they had assembled accessible.

In the magazine’s introductory article, writer ZaneFischer states that home prices in the county had escalatedout of proportion with wage increases. “This magazine,” hewrites, “is dedicated to helping residents of Santa Fe Coun-ty find and afford their own safe haven. (It) lays out a setof principles to guide housing strategy, including the tenetthat ‘the entire community including residents, businessesand government have the responsibility to work together toaddress housing needs.”

Among the book’s seven essays are pieces by Dodie Sala-zar, who grew up in mobile homes and at the time of the

study headed the Santa Fe County Housing Authority; EdRosenthal of Enterprise Community Partners New Mexico;and Tim Vigil, who spent eight years building his housewith his family.

The jurors for the award praised the graphics and strongheadings, among them E=MC2 for “An Affordable House”,Neighborhoods, Reducing Land Costs, and InnovativeDesign. The latter chapter offers efficient and cool-lookingaffordable-house types by Aaron Bohrer, Vahid Mojarrab,Lorn Tryk, and several other architects. The magazinecloses with a community directory of the scores of localorganizations offering housing assistance and counseling.

Homework: A User’s Guide to Housing Affordability inSanta Fe County came out in late 2008, just as the nationaleconomy was crashing and nobody could get a loan. “Irecently met with Santa Fe County on this and they stillthink the economy is not stable enough to get the loansthey need,” Bowden said in December. “I was recentlyapproached by St. Elizabeth Shelter and I introduced themto this package and said there are still some major develop-ments here that could help the homeless. There are 13,000homeless veterans in Northern New Mexico.”

Bowden said about 40,000 people in the county havereceived copies of Homework. “We keep distributing thesemagazines, to just keep reminding people there are thingsyou can do.”

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By Paul Weideman

“COMPREHENSIVELY, WE FELT THIS WAS THEMOST SOPHISTICATED PROJECT WE REVIEWED,WITH THE VOICE OF AN ACCOMPLISHED ARCHI-TECT AT WORK.” Alan Chimacoff, principal of ikon.5architects in Princeton, New Jersey, had that to say abouta Galisteo Basin Preserve home designed by Archaeo Ar-chitects. The occasion was the 2014 design awards of theSanta Fe chapter of the American Institute of Architects(AIA) on Dec. 11.

“The big idea [of the residence], which is a great bigspread pinwheel of long organizing walls standing fromthe living core of the house out into the landscape, is anintense spatial composition and a true interweaving ofbuilding and landscape,” said Chimacoff, chair of theawards jury. He spoke of the “purposeful ambiguity ofwhere the boundaries are between inside and out,” con-tinuing that “the two colors of wall, a warm gray, a lighterone and a dark one, recede and advance in the landscapein ways that promote that ambiguity. But at the same timethere is this great differentiation by this one intenselyred - a la Luis Barragan - wall that emphasizes the heart ofthe house and in the long view in the landscape it’s quitean important punctuation mark that says, Look, there’s aspecial happening in this location.”

The house, built by Hurlocker Homes, was featuredon the 2013 Haciendas — A Parade of Homes. Jon Dick,principal of Archaeo Architects, said Michael Hurlocker“didn’t have much input on the overall design — floorplan, exterior elevations, level changes, room sizes — but

when it got down to beam sizes and some of the materials,he had an impact on what you see.” Dick praised DavidMullin, Hurlocker project manager, for his “meticulous”

Southwest vernacular honored and abstractedAIA-Santa Fe Honor Award: Galisteo Basin Preserve residence, by Archaeo Architects

PHOTOS BY ROBERT RECK COURTESY ARCHAEO ARCHITECTS

attention on the house project. The residence is locatedon a 160-acre homesite, on a building envelope that wasdefined by the Galisteo Basin Preserve, which is beingdeveloped by the Commonweal Conservancy in a mannerthat conserves much of the basin in its natural state.

Commonweal has chosenbuilding sites that avoid petro-glyphs and archaeological sites.“We had to avoid a couple ofspots where they found someartifacts, and just to the south ofthe house are some [prehistoric]terraced planting areas,” Dicksaid. “Other than the buildingenvelope, all of that is dedicatedopen space.

“The house and landscapeintertwine; the northern portionof the house is excavated intothe land while the southernportion rises to meet the pan-oramic view.” In a statement,the architect wrote of the house“adhering to, yet abstracting,the underlying principles ofAmerican Southwest vernaculararchitecture.”

The team incorporated sustainable-building practices,including roof-water harvesting, a 57,000-watt photovoltaicarray, a geothermal heating system, and a louvered portál

roof to control sunlight into the living room.“There are four quadrants. The way you enter off of

Thornton Ranch Road was the least interesting. The otherthree look out to Cathedral Hill over by Lamy, out to theBasin, and the views to the Ortiz and the Sandias. If myship came in, I would do landscape art. Michael Heizer,James Turrell, and Andy Goldsworthy are the guys that getmy blood pumping. And so, in a way, I was slightly mov-ing into that territory by sliding these walls out into thelandscape. But at the same time I was trying to frame thoseviews. I really did try to do that, to let the house give itselfover to the landscape.”

Dick has been working in Santa Fe for 23 years. Thenative of northern Nevada earned his bachelor’s degree inarchitecture at the University of Idaho and a master’s inarchitecture from Cornell Univesity. He started working inthe field in Manhattan, including for Steven Holl.

In December, he had to review 125 houses and multi-family units as a juror for the national AIA housing awards.An interesting non-residential project he’s working on isa chapel for the Rivera Funeral Home. “It’s a circle. It’s acyilinder and the walls are battered out, as if it’s openingup to heaven. I’m stealing blatantly from James Turrell. I’mtrying to imbue the space with a sense of spirituality but vianatural light, because it’s a nondenominational chapel. Soit’s kind of a theatrical black box: you can bring in icons ofwhatever religion and use different seating arrangements.

“I have about a dozen projects,” he said, heading into2015. “I’ve never been busier.”


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As the New Year rolls in, the Santa FeAssociation of Realtors (SFAR) welcomesa new team of leaders. Barbara Blackwell,affiliated with Keller Williams, will serveas SFAR’s president. Barbara’s colleaguesrecognized her as the Realtor of the Yearin 2012 for her service to the industryand community. At SFAR, Barbara hasserved as a member of the board of di-rectors, chaired the Community ServicesCommittee, and served on numerousother association committees. She viewsherself as a service-oriented Realtor whohas been with the same core real-estateagency since 2003 through several namechanges or acquisitions.

Before becoming a Realtor, Barbaraworked at IBM for over 30 years in anumber of project-management roles. Shehas a degree in business administrationfrom the University of Nevada. Barba-ra hails from Pennsylvania but movedwest, to Nevada, at the age of seven withher family. She has traveled extensivelythrough her work and for pleasure. Barba-

ra would like for the Santa Fe communityto encourage international clientele tocome, visit and stay. She believes Santa Feis a wonderful place to live, especially foractive adults.

Realtor Gary Bobolsky with Sotheby’sInternational Real Estate will serve aspresident-elect in 2015. Gary has been in-spired by serving as first vice president forthe association, gaining personal and pro-fessional insight, as well as maintaininglevel-headedness through all transitionsand interactions that serve his peers andcolleagues. He is excited to participate asa “voice” for his peers and an advocate forthe local community, ultimately backedby his experience in all aspects of realestate. A native of Virginia and a graduatefrom Clemson University, Gary has beena recognized Realtor in Santa Fe for over20 years.

Melissa Pippin-Carson, a Realtor withKeller Williams, will take the helm asfirst vice president. Licensed since 2001,Melissa has been a very active SFAR

volunteer, serving in several leadershiproles including chair of the MembershipCommittee, Multiple Listing Service(MLS) Committee, and GovernmentAffairs Committee. She was a key playerin the implementation of the MLS GreenFeatures, which has been a growing trendand a key component of today’s buildingindustry, even foreshadowing the city’sgreen-building code. Her concerns forthe future of the association deal with thehealth of the membership and service tobrokers in the evolving housing marketand how best to educate the membershipabout ongoing technology changes.

The Santa Fe Association of Realtorswelcomes three new board members in2015. Julia Gelbart with Santa Fe Prop-erties has been in real estate for over 17years, including selling real estate in Con-necticut. She has been a past chair and iscurrently active on SFAR’s ProfessionalStandards Committee. Andrea Lucero, anative of Santa Fe affiliated with BarkerRealty, has been in real estate for 14 years.

Her passion for the business originated asshe observed her father, Rudy Fernandez,help so many people buy and sell realestate. Beth Stephens of Sotheby’s Interna-tional Realty has been in real estate since2002. She brings a B.S. in psychology, thelarger portion of an MBA, to her new roleas a director.

Paco Arguello is chief executive of theSanta Fe Association of Realtors. Contacthim at 982-8385 or [email protected].

Barbara Blackwell new SFAR presNewsfromSFAR

PACO ARGUELLO

As the new year is now underway, Iwanted to make a brief announcementand shameless plug for a local nonprofitso important to our home and housingindustry. It is a great honor to stewardthe efforts of the Santa Fe Area HomeBuilder’s Association’s exceptional boardof directors for 2015. The good work ofSFAHBA encompasses such a diverse andfar-reaching effect on our local commu-nity. SFAHBA is recognized as one ofthe most progressive and effective localhomebuilding associations in the country.

We are proud to be a trusted voice inSanta Fe, helping to shape the agenda andset the goals of forward-thinking policiesat the city, county and state levels. Ourcommitment to sustainable develop-ment has resulted in the strengtheningand refinement of the City of Santa Fe’s

green-building codes, and the develop-ment of a new water conservation ratingtool, the Water Efficiency Rating System(WERS), soon to be implemented.

Our weekly radio show hosted byexecutive officer Kim Shanahan airs everyMonday at noon on KVSF 101.5 FM.Stay tuned for important insights intokey issues facing our community and theconstruction industry. We are also veryexcited about the re-launch of our month-ly newsletter, Building Times, visible atwww.sfahba.com. In our increasing effortsto reach out to the Spanish-speaking por-tion of our community, we have begun aSpanish language section of our newslet-ter. Estad atentos para eventos de lenguaespañolas más en 2015.

This year we continue to support statelegislation to re-enact the Sustainable

Building Tax Credit and increase the de-velopment of local trades-based educationin our schools. Our monthly luncheons,open to the public, cover a wide range oftopics, including best practices in buildingand water conservation, and often we areable to host local and national politiciansfor open-forum discussions. In fact we areproud to be the go-to experts for many ofour political figures seeking insight intolegislative issues pertaining to housing,water conservation, and building codes.

It is a great honor and responsibil-ity to be elected president of this finelocal organization and I look forward toworking with all Santa Feans interested inhome-building issues this year.

Mark Giorgetti and Leslie Giorgetti areboth principals at Palo Santo Designs, a

Santa Fe design-build contractor special-izing in high-performance homes. Markserves as president of the Santa Fe AreaHome Builders’ Association, and Leslie isan associate broker with Santa Fe Prop-erties. Contact Mark at 505-670-4236,[email protected] and Leslie at505-670-7578, [email protected],and visit www.palosantodesigns.com.

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