Santa Fe Real Estate Guide January 2015 by The New Mexican

Santa Fe Real Estate Guide

January 2015

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Welcoming, Elegant, Light-Filled Home 437 Avenida Primera South Full of wonderful light, this welcoming Estancia Primera home is ideal for relaxed day-today 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

Classic Charm in Vista Redonda 70-B Vista Redonda Sited 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

Unique North Summit Retreat 1233 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 Escape 500 Camino Sin Nombre Down 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 $1,650,000 This remodeled contemporary on one in-town acre has an open-concept kitchen, dining room, and living room with Sangre de Cristo panoramas and a deck. The one-bedroom guesthouse is a private oasis. mls# 201403652 N EW LI STI N G - L AS CA MPANAS

64 AMBERWOOD LOOP $1,125,000 Las Campanas Territorial style. Elegant and beautifully designed on the 7th fairway of the Sunrise Golf Course. Fully landscaped 1.84 acres. With Wolf, SubZero, granite and builtin outdoor grill. mls# 201405347 N EW LISTI NG - A LDE A

1 CAMINO BARRANCA $575,000 Beautiful corner lot in Aldea de Santa Fe, new single-level 3-bedroom, 3-bath home with easy access to the 599 bypass. Prime location offers beautiful mountain and sunset views. Great outdoor portal. mls# 201405314

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540 EAST ALAMEDA $1,495,000 Meticulously renovated, this historic estate near Canyon Road and the Plaza features a Spanish-tile roof, a private brick driveway, a billiards room and bar, and a wine cellar and tasting room. mls# 201404974 CASAS D E SA N JUA N

111 AVENIDA DE LAS CASAS $899,000 Incredible views from this perfectly located condo in the gated Casas de San Juan subdivision. Large open living and outdoor space, perfect for entertaining. Beautifully landscaped with views of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. mls# 201404271 N EW LISTIN G - A L D EA

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

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

832 CALLE DAVID $760,000 Sweeping Sangre de Cristo views, an open floor plan, three bedroom suites, an office, and a two-car garage add to the appeal of this new 2,841-square-foot contemporary home on 1.55 private acres. mls# 201401382 N EW LISTING - L AMY

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

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CONTEMPORARY SANCTUARY 64 Rancho de San Juan Road Retreat to a contemporary sanctuary with sophisticated finishes and magnificent views on 15 acres. Built in 2004 with 3,526 sq ft, custom furnishings, portales and patios in gated Rancho de San Juan. $1,100,000 mls# 201405460

SOPHISTICATED & WARM CONTEMPORARY DESIGN 830 East Zia A tasteful and elegant contemporary home with 3,000 square feet, three bedrooms, office and twobaths on one acre. Well located off Old Santa Fe Trail, minutes to the Plaza. Gated, storage spaces, comfortable and private. $650,000

DISTINCTIVE SANTA FE STYLE 7 Willa Cather Sophisticated home with contemporary flair. Features an open living area, split floor plan and a lovely patio. Enjoy 3+ bedrooms, 3 baths with 2,500 sq ft and 2-car garage on 1.5 acres. Built in 2008. $575,000 mls# 201402613

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SCULPTURAL POETRY 8 Blue Jay Court A poetic property located in the embrace of Timberlake Ranch with endless outdoor pleasures is a 2,600 sq ft custom home with three bedrooms and three baths, built in 1998 and located on 11.78 private acres. $399,000 mls# 201400909

LAS CAMPANAS VIEW LOT 109 Graythorn Drive, Lot 117 Spacious 1.66 acre Las Campanas lot with Sangre de Cristo and Sandia mountain views located in Estates I with easy access to Santa Fe and the Clubhouse. The large, elevated building site offers dramatic views and privacy. $100,000 mls# 201401966

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AFFORDABLE ELEGANCE 1566 Sipapu Lane Young, quality home with Santa Fe style, centrally located to everything. Built in 2007 with an open floor plan, 1,586 sq ft, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, master suite upstairs with deck and Sangre de Cristo mountain views. $285,000 mls# 201404181

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Neil D. Lyon, CRB, CRS, GRI 505.954.5505 • 505.660.8600 cell • neil@neillyon.com Vanessa Rios y Valles 505.954.5522 • 505.231.3708 cell • vanessa@neillyon.com Michaelene Sargent 505.954.5514 • 505.660.3850 cell • michaelene@neillyon.com

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NEIL LYON GROUP 2014 CLOSED TRANSACTIONS 137 Calle Ventoso West (B)

$1,395,000

791 Paseo del Florencio (S)

$899,000

431 & 435 Arroyo 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 CONTRACT 19 Entrada Descanso, Lot 878 (S)

$55,000

2014 was an “interesting” year. As I write this letter in early December the Dow Jones Industrial Average is cautiously marching towards 18,000. Interest rates are low… in the 3.25% to 4.25% range, dependent upon the particular terms of a loan. Our biggest feeder markets are experiencing very strong economies. Home prices are at or near their post-recession lows. The number of properties on the market is more than sufficient 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. Then a (not so) funny thing happened. Our recovery lost steam and we experienced three quarters of restrained activity, which will cause the market to end the year very similarly to 2013. In the $2,000,000+ market, Santa Fe will see about the same number of closed sales as we experienced in 2013. Approximately 1 each month. In the $1,000,000 – $2,000,000 category, Santa Fe will experience approximately one more sale every two months. In the $500,000 to $1,000,000 category, the market will end up generating about 3 more sales each month 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 and we 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 expectations are always high. We made some significant refinements in our marketing approach and we blazed some new territory in how we advertise and promote our listed properties, and in the services that we provide to 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 the always-predictable praise she earns from those with whom we work. Michaelene Sargent, approaching 2 years on my Team, continues to provide very intelligent and competent brokerage services to our many buyers and sellers. And with Lauren Robertson providing primarily web-based marketing and advertising support for 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 after time, to provide them with our expert services as they buy and sell in Santa Fe. It is truly an honor. And as we celebrate the many successes of 2014, we are very mindful of the important work that still needs to be completed on behalf of our many clients, as they look to sell their Santa Fe properties or to purchase in Santa Fe, 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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• In the Illuminations feature last month, the price of the “Light Bench” offered by Molecule Design was incorrect. It is $790, not $450. • Regarding last month’s story about the New Mexico Real Estate Commission, Richard Mares, who served on the commission for 10 years, called to clarify that there are over 11,000 real-estate licensees in New Mexico and only about 52 percent of those are Realtors. “The public needs to understand that the Real Estate Commission does not belong to a Realtor association,” Mares said. “The word Realtor does not appear in New Mexico’s licensing law; it is just an association. I want the public to know they have a place to go if they have a complaint about a licensee, whether it’s a Realtor or not.” HO ME

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Sited in the stunning terrain northwest of Santa Fe, on 17.7 acres adjoining BLM land, this exceptional architect-designed home and art studio offers new perspectives in modern living. Captivating living spaces showcase art, gardens, solar design and embrace mountain vistas. In harmony with the terrain, living spaces flow with ease from inside to out. The architecture, with its compelling lines, creates a vibrant and fluid environment. The residence includes 3BR, 3BA, entry gallery, living, dining and music rooms and a well-considered kitchen. The professional quality studio with office and bath features windows in a series offering north light. Dwell in a world infused with points of view. MLS 201403375 Offered at $1,700,000

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18 GREEN MEADOW LOOP $1,375,000 One-of-a-kind adobe gem with all the appointments of Old World design reflecting extraordinary craftsmanship and attention to detail. Charming 4,685 sq. ft., 3BR, 3.5BA home with traditional Santa Fe architecture. mls# 201306052

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1449 NEVADO RIDGE $1,149,000 Imagine a contemporary aerie set within the confines of Santa Fe’s Summit, perfectly poised between the majestic mountain views of the ski basin and the warmth and activity of Santa Fe’s Plaza. 3BR, 2.5BA. mls# 201405327

152 BARRANCA ROAD $995,000 Only minutes from the historic Plaza, this custom-built Yardman home offers unique architectural design and privacy in a high-desert setting with spectacular mountain vistas. Lovingly maintained, 3BR, 4BA. mls# 201405457

Happy New Year! JOHNNIE GILLESPIE 505.690.1909 johnnie@johnniegillespie.com SANTA FE | sothebyshomes.com/santafe 231 Washington Avenue | Santa Fe, NM 87501 | 505.988.8088 326 Grant Avenue | Santa Fe, NM 87501 | 505.988.2533 417 East Palace Avenue | Santa Fe, NM 87501 | 505.982.6207 Sotheby’s International Realty and the Sotheby’s International Realty logo are registered (or unregistered) service marks used with permission. Operated by Sotheby’s International Realty, Inc., Equal Housing Opportunity.

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ARROYO HONDO ESTATE PARADISE This gated 8.5-acre Arroyo Hondo estate includes a 6,000-square-foot, four-bedroom home; a two-bedroom guest house; a portal; a pool; patios, courtyards, and decks; stables, and art and photo studios. #201404185 $2,475,000

SANTA FE-STYLE TUSCAN PALAZZO A Santa Fe Tuscan-style palazzo with Sangre de Cristo views. Unique house and guest house next to the Santa Fe Opera in prestigious Casas de San Juan. Gorgeous new diamond finish plaster throughout. #201401580 $1,595,000

CASA ESTRELLA On a hillside with panoramas, this villa encourages luxurious living with its indoor and outdoor kitchens, lavish master suite, plaster and marble floors, tall ceilings, fireplaces, and skylights. #201403474 $1,525,000

WALK DOWNTOWN FROM GREAT VIEWS Views of mountains and blue sky can be enjoyed from this classic open-concept home blocks from the Plaza and Canyon Road. The sensible, lightfilled floor plan includes 3BR and 3BA, and two large view decks. #201402472 $799,000 SPECTACULAR VIEWS ON THE NORTHSIDE 4,218 sq ft view house on 1.3 acres near the Governor’s Mansion with 4BR, 3BA, two offices, two patios, and spectacular wraparound views from all major rooms. Privacy, convenience, plus location. #201401085 $695,000

VIEW HOUSE AND GUESTHOUSE A gated sanctuary offering peaceful seclusion, mountain views, and a comfortable environment. 3,600-squarefoot, 3BR, 3BA main house and 1,200-square-foot guest house. Office, gym, studio, storage, garage. #201305054 $795,000

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This impeccable, thoroughly wonderful four-bedroom, five-anda-half bath Territorial-style home on 5.4 acres includes a winning combination of exquisite Sangre de Cristo mountain views, convenient location, and expansive fenced and walled grounds. The exceptional master suite has fireplace, exercise studio and two walk-in closets. Also featured are an upscale center island kitchen with adjoining breakfast/family room, remarkable dining room and fantastic media/game room. Entirely one level except for a stunning upstairs fourth bedroom/office suite. Impressive room sizes, high beamed ceilings, three fireplaces, custom wall treatments and multiple banks of French doors contribute to the fabulous, stylish environment. mls# 201405562 $925,000

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TRAVIS LUXURY RANCH | 12 Avenida de Rey | $14,700,000 This fabulous 220-acre luxury ranch offers every imaginable amenity as well as breathtaking mountain views, and it is only 20 minutes to the Plaza. Highlights include an 8,750-square-foot three-bedroom adobe main residence, a guesthouse, a television production studio or gymnasium, a bowling alley and shooting range, stables that include living quarters, and multiple garages. #201401257 N EW PR IC E

1402 CERRO GORDO $3,500,000 An incredible historic Eastside adobe, Wolf Bros. remodel with impeccable taste. Gracious dining and living room, open kitchen, and master bedroom with sitting room. #201400959

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

A REALTOR SINCE 1992 AND CONSISTENTLY IN THE TOP 5% OF BROKERS IN SANTA FE. AGGRESSIVE, INTELLIGENT, ETHICAL. Born in Pueblo, CO, Bob has a BA in Mathematics and Philosophy earned while a Benedictine monk, an MA in Art from the U of Northern Colorado, and a Doctorate in Art Education from Arizona 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 in Artisanry). He has been president of the San Antonio Art Institute and the Museum of New Mexico Foundation. He is an exhibiting artist of his wood sculptures of churches of New Mexico and from around the world.

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

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16 CHICOMA AVENUE, ABIQUIU $499,000 Artist’s Adobe Dream! This 3-building compound is beautifully designed and executed with the finest Japanese-style aesthetics and craftsmanship. #201300832

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

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OUTSTANDING CONTEMPORARY 80 West Golden Eagle

107 Paseo Del Conejo

$870,000

An outstanding example of contemporary design, this home has been lovingly maintained by its original owner. Walking distance from the clubhouse and the fitness center, the 3,375-square-foot residence offers three bedrooms and baths, a stylish kitchen, xeriscaped gardens, and magnificent attention to detail throughout. With its clean 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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Designed and built by Parade of Homes award winner Frank Yardman Construction and located on 2.5 acres minutes from downtown Santa Fe, this architectural beauty has a traditional pitched roof and mountain vistas. The spacious open floor plan features soaring ceilings, wood floors, casual living and dining areas, a den with a fireplace, a portal, a private master wing with a walk-in closet and luxurious bath, a separate two-bedroom guest wing, and a sumptuously appointed gourmet kitchen. #201404774

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

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

731 B CANYON ROAD $1,200,000 Sitting on one of the world’s most impressive addresses – Santa Fe’s Canyon Road. This high-end spectacular gallery has beautifully proportioned rooms that allow you to enjoy all the architectural design elements. Great tourist trade and an excellent opportunity to be in one of the best locations. #201405577

Happy New Year! CAROL ALEXANDER 505.690.4991

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Tesuque Valley Dramatic, Contemporary Aesthetic with Breathtaking Sangre de Cristo Views

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84 LA PAZ LOOP $399,000 Charming home with warmth, character and beauty. This darling home has 3BR, 2BA, upgraded kitchen, mature landscaping, and great views. A lovely open floor plan with lots of natural light, and rooms that open onto a beautiful outdoor space. #201405567

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83 Apache Ridge

$1,031,500

Exceptional Artists’ Compound on 5 Wooded Acres with 2 Professional Art Studios, Woodshop and Private Well

23 Camino del Monte

$675,000

Unit One Sunlit Hills Sophisticated Home with Far-reaching Mountain Views

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79 MOUNTAIN TOP ROAD $450,000 Amazing setting in the tall pines with big rock outcroppings and a well-built mountain residence featuring fantastic views. This 2BR, 2BA home has wonderful living space with panoramic vistas and lots of great light. #201405389 79MountainTop.com

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45 CAMINO COSTADINO $525,000 Beautifully customized, artistically fashioned residence in Dos Griegos in a delightful setting with big trees and picturesque views. High ceilings and attractive finishes in a great floor plan. #201404690 www.45CaminoCostadino.com

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587 CAMINO MONTEBELLO $755,000 Lovely and comfortable 3BR, 3BA Pueblostyle home on a quiet cul-de-sac has beautiful Sangre de Cristo mountain views. Kitchen with fireplace and casual dining/sitting area. Formal dining, living room with fireplace opens to private walled courtyard with fireplace. Minutes to Plaza. 587CaminoMontebello.com

2 HAMPTON ROAD $539,000 Lovely adobe home in the southeast foothills has fabulous views and amazing rock outcroppings! Thoroughly refurbished with beautiful tile floors, 2 kiva fireplaces, excellent kitchen, family room/study, office/guest room, and steam shower. #201404268 2HamptonRoad.com SO LD

43 CERRO BLANCO ROAD $829,000 Designed for entertaining and worry-free living, this stunning contemporary home offers fabulous living spaces, views from every window, great kitchen, luxurious owner’s suite, two offices, and 2BR, 2BA guest quarters. #201401637 43CerroBlanco.com

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1417 GALISTEO STREET $695,000 Marvelous in-town living! Superb 4BR, 4BA, plus office, 3,400 sq ft residence on welllocated half acre. Excellent floor plan with open public areas, great kitchen, lots of light, dual master closets, central AC, heated garage, and a wonderful portal. #201403339 1417Galisteo.com SO LD

9 TRAILS END COURT $895,000 Enjoy graceful living in this impeccable Southwestern home situated on over nine acres in a fabulous location in a gated neighborhood just minutes from the Plaza in downtown Santa Fe. Striking mountain views. 2-stall horse barn. #201402500 9TrailsEnd.com

1985CERROSCOLORADOS $985,000 Gorgeous four bedroom, five bath home with beautiful finishes, wood floors, formal dining, great kitchen, luxurious master bath, dual closets, family room, open floorplan leads to wonderful outdoor living, spacious portal with views, and 3-car garage. #201404419 1985CerrosColorados.com

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With heartfelt thanks to all my Buyers & Sellers for your friendship and business in 2014. My best year ever – in the Top 25 Brokers in Santa Fe.

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423-A West San Francisco Street (S) 1573 Corte La Canada (S) 1391 Barranca del Oro (S) 813 Camino del Este (S) 362 Calle Colina (S) 3228 La Avenida de San Marcos (B) 1272 Canyon Road (B) 3101 Old Pecos Trail, #408 (B) 3101 Old Pecos Trail, #152 (S) 832-A East Palace Avenue (B) 1565 Corte La Canada (B) 424 Alamo Drive (B) 805 Apodaca Hill (S)

Soaring Eagle Drive (S) 1049 Governor Dempsey (S) 2029 Hopi Road (B) 731 Calle Picacho (S) 24 Calle San Acacia (B) 2705 Sol y Luz Loop (B) 418-422 Abeyta Street (B&S) 618 1/2 Alarid Street (S) 205 Rendon Street (B) 40B Old Road South (B) 850 D Camino Chamisa (B) 857 East Palace Avenue (B) S=Seller, B=Buyer

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

121 SICOMORO $399,000 Beautifully remodeled Stamm. 1,651 sq ft with 2-car garage, hardwood floors, insulated windows, pitched roof, and newly landscaped. Nice sunroom and outdoor space. #201402977

725 CANYON $319,000 One-of-a-kind fee simple lot, set in the heart of Canyon Road. One part of a 2-unit compound, this flagged and surveyed parcel has a set of plans available. #201403434

6 WINDSTONE $315,000 Former 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 $295,000 Beautifully kept in a great convenient location. 2BR, 2BA adobe with detached garage and mature trees. Upgraded electric, remodeled kitchen, sloped torchdown roof. #201403734

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404 PLAZA LOMAS $730,000 Completed January 2014. Newly constructed custom home with 2 BR, 2 BA , private office, and 2-car garage. #201404862 IN-TOWN GEM

138 AVENIDA FRIJOLES $599,000 3BR, 3BA, 2,500 sq.ft. Aldea home built in 2009 with many upgrades and A/C. Opposite recorded open space. #201404801

807 LOMA BOREAL $445,000 Soft contemporary two bedroom, two bath townhouse in brand-new condition. Walk to downtown. #201404822

HAPPY NEW YEAR – FELIZ AÑO NUEVO

704 B AGUA FRIA $265,000 Sweet two bedroom, two bath condo. Freshly painted. Shortterm rentals permitted by HOA. #201404269

The old pattern of living in one home for the majority of our lives has changed. Nowadays life takes us down many paths. If the elements of your journey through 2015 require the services of a seasoned real estate broker, please call me so we can work together. My knowledge of the market and an early start will give you the necessary edge to accomplish a successful transaction.

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1422 Bishops Lodge | $3,995,000 Do you need a little more moisture in your Santa Fe experience? This wonderful family compound features the lushness of Tesuque, a swimming pool, a pond with a circulating stream, a grass lawn, its own well, and many trees in a gated compound with a four bedroom home, a two bedroom guest house, and a barn with stable area and views. MLS# 201401876

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46 Tesuque Village Road | $595,000 This wonderful home with studio guest house is surrounded by more expensive homes in the San Ysidro de Tesuque Subdivision. This five acre lot is outside of the gated area and accessed directly off of Tesuque Village Road. It is nicely finished with a nice layout. MLS# 201403745

Eric Faust 505 780 1 159 Las Campanas View Lots | $49,000 – $225,000

Keith Gorges 505 780 1 152

Kurt Faust 505 780 1 157

At Tierra Team, we don’t believe in the status quo. We believe in delivering more. Because we are also Santa Fe’s most award-winning design and build team, our knowledge of construction costs and shifting market values is the best in the field.

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200 W. De Vargas

10 Altazano Dr.

171 Sunflower Dr.

491 State Highway 165

PRICE REDUCTION OFFERED AT US $1,125,000 INQUIRIES +1 505 455 8686 ASSOCIATE Benjamin Mohr

OFFERED AT US $5,850,000 INQUIRIES +1 505 204 2491 ASSOCIATE Stephanie Duran

OFFERED AT US $1,095,000 OFFERED AT US $1,200,000 INQUIRIES +1 505 577 9060 INQUIRIES +1 505 670 1783 ASSOCIATES Kristina Lindstrom ASSOCIATE Philip Ross + Ruby Valdez

41 San Sebastian Rd.

18 Media Luna

OFFERED AT US $1,060,000 INQUIRIES +1 505 946 8475 ASSOCIATES Jane Hiltbrand + Tony Allegretti

OFFERED AT US $1,260,000 INQUIRIES +1 505 470 5604 ASSOCIATE John Hancock

248 Rancho Alegre Rd.

The Boutique Brokerage Barker Realty, located in the historic Railyard District, has served Santa Fe as a family owned real estate brokerage since 1964. With a rich history and timeless dedication, we continue our commitment to Santa Fe real estate as the area’s only luxury boutique brokerage.

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OFFERED AT US $2,800,000 INQUIRIES +1 505 660 5170 ASSOCIATE Robin Zollinger

OFFERED AT US $1,150,000 INQUIRIES +1 505 992 3594 ASSOCIATE Christine McDonald

142 Lincoln, #402

1204 Calle De Agua

36 Camino Monte Feliz

35 Entrada Descanso

100 Pedregal Pl.

OFFERED AT US $2,795,000 INQUIRIES +1 505 603 2212 ASSOCIATE Christopher J. Harris

OFFERED AT US $1,375,000 INQUIRIES +1 505 946 8475 ASSOCIATES Jane Hiltbrand + Tony Allegretti

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OFFERED AT US $1,425,000 OFFERED AT US $1,450,000 INQUIRIES +1 505 920 0900 INQUIRIES +1 505 204 2491 ASSOCIATES Gary R. Hall ASSOCIATE Stephanie Duran + Meleah Artley

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ONE OF SANTA FE’S MOST SIGNIFICANT CONTEMPORARIES 1204 Calle De Agua

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The Zeckendorf Residence: Uncompromising Design, Sophisticated Style, Breathtaking Exposures and Views

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10 Miners Trail

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When approaching this authentic Southwestern house/guest-house, one has the serene feeling that they are finally in the Santa Fe of their dreams. 10 Miners Trail is everything that Santa Fe is famous 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 and colorful 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 stroll away, and could be a fabulous art studio. #201405235

3012 Monte Sereno Drive $1,150,000 • 3,137 sq.ft. • 3 Bed/4 Bath • #201401935

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“Service That Moves You!” CALL US TODAY to get your home sold in 2015! CURRENT OFFERINGS 41 San Sebastian

100 Pedregal Place

5614 B NM 41 Galisteo

3532 Via Brisas

#201300721 | $1,060,000

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Fools for fabric backs. That being said, sometimes a lighthigh use such as sofas, dining-chair seats, We frequently venture into the realm of fabric and its many facets. For many er fabric should be knit-backed to give it and lounge chairs require a heavy-duty furnishings projects, we start concept extra strength for use on a medium-use fabric. Protective finishes such as Scotchdevelopment by sifting through our speupholstery piece. Most fabrics are subjectgard, Teflon, or Nanotex can be profescialty fabric bins (sorted by color), pulling sionally applied to fabrics to give them a ed to the Wyzenbeek or Martindale Metha handful that speaks to us. We spread od abrasion or rub tests, both of which longer lifespan. Printed or embroidered them out on the work table to play and indicate how quickly a fabric shows wear. fabrics of ligher weight are perfect for prune our selections, until we feel we have pillows, drapery, and dining-chair seat Their score on this test (usually printed on captured the visual essence the fabric tag) indicates its ideal of the client and project. This types of use. becomes our start. Pattern layering can be fun We choose to begin with fabto experiment with and add rics because they immediately visual interest to a space. Textile induce a feeling. Their textures, designer Sherri Donghia said, “I colors, and patterns tell a story, dress homes the way I dress mywhether formal or casual, bold self – layers and collages, bits or subtle, layered or simple. of old things mixed with new, They recall associations to your like a patchwork. Eclectic style mother’s living-room drapery, is hard to achieve, but it’s always your childhood bedspread, personal.” You cannot go wrong or your favorite artist’s work. with fabric selection if you folSometimes one beloved special low a few simple tips: (1) Vary fabric becomes inspiration for the scale of fabric patterns; (2) the rest of the room and leads Vary type of pattern (i.e. floral, the charge. This fabric should stripe, check) to create interesthave presence in the space, be ing contrast; and (3) Stick with front and center, maybe for a color palette. It could be a accent pillows or a headboard. sophisticated use of color from After pulling a variety of a piece of artwork or an antique fabrics, we consider specific textile, or just keep it simple furniture pieces for which they with one color and neutrals, would be appropriate, for exbut whatever you do, stick with ample seating, drapery, pillows, your story. If you happen to be headboards, and bedskirts. a more savvy fabric person, the Different applications call for fun is limitless, mixing different different types of fabric durastyle floral, paisley and checks, bility, construction, and weight. A collection of versatile designs and colors in prints, weaves and embroider- stripes with stripes, etc., but it Upholstered pieces that receive ies by Romo does take an artful eye.

Building permits SANTA FE COUNTY building permits issued from mid-November to mid-December included the following:

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

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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-Shelley, 15 Rocky Slope Dr. $800,000. Barry Seldin, 17 Grey Wolf. $1.1 million. Fidelphio Gomez, 10 Cam. Archuletas. $200,000.

Tierra Concepts Inc., 58 Paseo Aragon. $570,000. — 60 Paseo Aragon. $590,000. Building permits issued by the CITY OF SANTA FE during the month of November included the following:

Philip Alarid, 616 E. Alameda St. $280,000.

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Adding fabric-covered pieces not only visually softens a room, but adds acoustic value as well. If you have a space where there is a lot of sound reverberation, often it is because all surfaces are hard materials, so adding something upholstered creates opportunities for trapping sound. Mohair, boucle or felted fabric are thicker and have pockets for absorption, as opposed to those with a shiny or flat “hand” — the way a fabric feels to the hand. The fabric world is vast, but is a very exciting place to explore. If it feels overwhelming, a professional interior designer can help navigate the course to create a palette and aesthetic that speaks to you. Heather Van Luchene, ASID and Steffany Hollingsworth, ASID are partners in HVL Interiors, LLC, an interior design firm offering professional residential and hospitality design services. Both are New Mexico licensed interior designers. They can be reached at (505) 983-3601 or info@ hvlinteriors.com.

Silvio Lopez, 207 Ricardo Rd. $125,000. Pulte Development of NM, 3069 Floras 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 Del Sol. $176,355. — 7312 Rio Del Sol. $171,090. — 7325 Ave. El Nido. $192,430. Palo Duro Homes, 5238 Via Del Cielo. $220,000. — 5257 Via Del Cielo. $220,000.

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Failed footings and massive movement are often associated with water from broken utility lines, drip irrigation systems or rainfall. During the current drought it has been different: The extraordinarily dry weather has resulted in the desiccation of soils that, as they shrink, place stress on the loads imposed on them.

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As counter-intuitive as settlement caused by the absence of moisture seems, there is another seeming paradox emerging from the pattern of failures we are observing: It is newer houses that are failing far more frequently than older ones. Our largest underpinning jobs on existing adobe homes have been for houses that are less than 15 years old. Huge remediation expenses leave new homeowners feeling legitimately cheated. You may reasonably ask how this can be, given that building standards and codes 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 a single story, few and typically small window and door openings, and a low roofline. The tendency now is to increase the height and build sensuously thick walls broken by lots of large openings. Modestly sized vigas have given way to massive, whole trees. Concrete has replaced wood as a bond beam. In short, houses are heavier and more brittle now. If you love your new house even though it is betraying you, or if you want to build a new home, we can help keep it honest with helical piers or micropiles. ~Ed Crocker HOME

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*Club Membership subject to Club approval. Club Membership offering expires December 31, 2014. This promotional material is not intended to constitute an offering in violation of the law of any jurisdiction. Lot reservations or conditional sales only may be currently offered in certain neighborhoods. No binding offer to sell or lease this property may be made or accepted prior to delivery of a disclosure statement for the property that complies with applicable state law, including the New Mexico Subdivision 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 owners are 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. Additional membership fees and restrictions apply. Prices are subject to change without notice. ÂŠ2014 Las Campanas Residential Holdings, LLC and Las Campanas Realty, LLC. All rights reserved. HOME

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Three bridges in Santa Fe designated ‘significant’ By Paul Weideman ON OCT. 28, THE CITY’S HISTORIC DISTRICTS REVIEW BOARD ACTED QUICKLY ON A TRIO OF PROPOSALS FROM THE OLD SANTA FE ASSOCIATION. The H-Board designated three downtown bridges as historically “significant,” the highest level of protection after the “landmark” status that is held by just a few structures such as Rosario Chapel and the Gross Kelly Warehouse. Newly designated are the 1934 Don Gaspar Bridge and the 1928 Delgado Street Bridge over the Santa Fe River, and the 1920 Bridge of the Hidalgos over the Arroyo Mascaras. “This move of ours was meant as a proactive move to place the bridges under enhanced protection in order to be a step ahead of [Santa Fe’s Department of] Public Works, should they be desirous in the future of demolition and widening, as was the case with the Defouri Street Bridge,” said OSFA board member John Eddy. The H-Board was presented with a Historic Cultural Property Inventory for each bridge. The reports, by architectural historian John W. Murphey, FirstLight Consulting, are full of fascinating detail, a fraction of which is presented here. The precedents of the Don Gaspar Bridge/El Puente de Los Conquistadores include a wooden span and then a stone arch bridge that was constructed efficiently in 1902 using convict labor. It was adequate until traffic from both residents and tourists in the late 1920s began to overwhelm its narrow roadway. After crews removed the old, stone bridge, they put up special “cribbing” formwork along the outer edge of the spandrel walls, assembled an intricate frame of reinforced steel, then poured the concrete floor. The bridge’s construction was related to a New Deal program to improve municipal transportation during the Great Depression. It was built with a wide roadway to relieve congestion at the College Street — now Old Santa Fe Trail — intersection a block or two east. (That width, and its de2 4 JANUARY 2 01 5

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The Don Gaspar Bridge

The Delgado Street Bridge

The Bridge of the Hidalgos

signed ability to carry a 15-ton live load, are reasons why the bridge has served the city well for more than 80 years.) The bridge, of rigid-frame design, was supposed to harmonize “with the Spanish type of architecture peculiar to this vicinity.” Murphey said the parapet or railing was designed by architect Trent Thomas (who also worked with Isaac Rapp on La Fonda and with Carlos Vierra on the artist’s own house in the second decade of the 20th century). “Even though it doesn’t look like much to the uneducated eye, it’s kind of important because it might be the only Spanish Pueblo Revival bridge,” he said with a laugh. “It’s quite heavy and parapetlike, like a Spanish-Pueblo building; it just doesn’t have windows.” A letter to the state highway engineer from the journal Engineering News-Record praised the bridge as “one of the best examples of indigenous architecture that has come to our attention.” Murphey wrote that the bridge “continued to play an important role as the gateway between the old downtown and the evolving capitol district and automobile suburbs south of the river.” He added that all Santa Fe bridges since “are of the graceful rigid-frame design, proving the permanence and influence of New Mexico’s first rigid-frame bridge.” The story of the Delgado Street Bridge begins with a report of a September 1904 flood that swept away several Santa Fe River bridges, including one at Delgado Street. It would be nearly a quarter of a century before the Santa Fe County government found the funds, and summoned the motivation, to replace it. Murphey details the ups and downs of its planning, but a new bridge became more of a priority in the midst of the city’s population doubling between 1910 and 1930. A concrete deck-girder design was chosen. Unlike earlier bridges over the river, this type “permitted an unsupported span, free of a pier that could catch debris during flooding. The selected hand railing was a sturdy post-and-rail design. Signifying the urban ambition of the program, the posts and rails were enhanced with recessed stamped panels and chamfered edges. Following the aesthetic of urban bridges of the period, the railing continued beyond the deck, tracing the radii of the wingwalls to create a gateway-like approach.” The Delgado Street Bridge is the city’s oldest surviving vehicular span over the Santa Fe River. The third structure honored by the H-Board is the one most residents

would probably think of first as being historically significant: the Bridge of the Hidalgos at the northern end of Grant Avenue. It was built to provide a direct and efficient connection from the central city to the highway to Taos and other areas of northern Santa Fe County. City engineer Walter G. Turley was the construction supervisor on the project. In an article published in Concrete Highway Magazine, Turley “attempted to equate the modern use of concrete to the historic use of adobe plaster… This connection between old and new materials was manifested in the rough, plaster-like concrete coating of the Bridge of the Hidalgos and the rounded elements of the heavy posts,” Murphy wrote. The bridge type is concrete bowstring truss (also known as “rainbow arch”). The splendidly A detail of the concrete bowstring truss bridge on Grant Avenue decorative form peaked in popularity a few years after the Santa Fe bridge its construction, due to the large amount was finished in 1920, but not too long of steel needed to reinforce the curved and afterward fell out of favor as “too costly in vertical members of the arch.”

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

for a grand parade marching from the Santa Fe Plaza to the dedication of the Cross of the Martyrs on Paseo de la Cuma — and both the cross and the new bridge were constructed by the Midland Bridge Company of Kansas City, Missouri. Murphey did all three bridge reports this summer. Now an independent architectural historian and consultant, his resumé includes work for the Texas Historical Commission (1997-2000), New Mexico Historic Preservation Division (2000-2008), National Park Service (20092011), and the City of Santa Fe Historic Preservation Division (2011-2014). “The Old Santa Fe Association hired me to do a National Register nomination for the Delgado Street bridge, so thought I might as well throw in, pro bono, forms for the other two bridges as well,” he told Home. “My personal interest is that they have always been ignored, even though they’re quite important.”

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Another resolution or new mindset? Every year at this time brings a new list of New Year’s resolutions as we make new goals and promise ourselves to change our behavior in some way for the better. When it comes to being socially networked online, we could probably create an endless list of all the activities we think we must be doing. Here are some things I hear often: I will finally get on Facebook. I will update my profile on Linkedin. I will stop Tweeting about everything I do. I will not check Facebook when I am on a date. I will not pin everything I see on Pinterest. I will connect with my customers. I will learn Google+. I will remember everything I post stays online. By mid-January, we often discover there is no time to be present everywhere online and any new goal set for Facebook or Twitter or Google+ or Pinterest or LinkedIn is often abandoned. Instead of making a list of activities, look at your social networking behavior and change your mindset. A mindset shift makes goals easier to reach. Why?

The way we use the internet and our social web to communicate has changed how we behavior online. Today, 60 percent of all internet activity begins on a mobile device, according to statistics from the American Marketing Association. We are almost becoming comfortable giving more information about our daily activities then less. It is a habit for people to post what they like or dislike using a hashtag (#) whether it is about food, the news, politics or the weather. Others use the LIKE button habit on Facebook to connect instead of engaging with a comment. We worry about privacy and forget everything we post online is public. Are you becoming addicted to creating a digital story about your life without thinking? Are you speaking like a brand by broadcasting what is for sale and not listening to your customers? Only you know those answers while others see your behavior. Have we forgotten social networking is a two-way street? Imagine a new mindset where connecting and engaging with

people is a more honest and powerful way to communicate rather than broadcasting everything happening in your life or business. Everything you do online sends a message. This includes if you do not have a presence online. It is important to take a mindful approach to your online presence in 2015. Here are some suggestions for both your personal or business activity. Look at what people see about you. Do a Google search for you name and company. Look at what people say. Have a conversation to engage with your friends and customers rather than broadcasting. Listen to what your friends and customers are saying about themselves and your business competition. Add learning to your social media activity. Schedule time to read, take classes or webinars. Most people learn by doing and making mistakes. If something worked for you once, it may not be working now. How we use social media sites changes how they work. Focus on one social network that works for you.

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Shift your activity to listening and engaging to discover more about your friends and customers in your social networking world in 2015. See you next online. Emily Medvec (buysantafehomes.com) is a Realtor with Keller Williams. To sell or buy real estate, call her at 505-660-4541. Emily’s other passion is how social networking changes how we communicate. Connect with her at Facebook/LiveLoveSantaFe and on Twitter at @emilymedvec.

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Barkers invite their vp into partnership By Paul Weideman

arren Sacks, who entered the real-estate business just a decade ago, recently accepted a 20 percent minority interest in Barker Realty|Christie’s International Real Estate. Formerly the firm’s vice president, he is also now its chief operations officer. The company, started nearly 50 years ago by Laughlin Barker, is headed by David and Lisa Barker, who bought it in 1985. They retain control. At the announcement made during a company party on Dec. 12, the owners made it clear to their brokers and staff that David Barker is not retiring. “Warren is great in operations and he brings a young, energetic enthusiasm and a lot of in-depth knowledge about internet, computer technology and systems,” David Barker said. “It just really strengthens what we’re doing here in our company, because it’s all about our customers, and our customers are our associate brokers and their buyers and sellers.” In an interview, Lisa Barker recalled that Sacks came to the company straight out of college. “His father, Rudy Sacks, who is our tax attorney, asked if we’d consider giving him an internship. I said, ‘Rudy, I’ve never had an intern before. I don’t know what to do with a 20-year-old kid.’ “Warren showed up his first day in a suit and I told him to go home and change and I had him clean out the basement,” she said. “Then I ordered 60 new desk chairs, which came disassembled in boxes and his next task was to put them all together.” Sacks worked the front desk for a time and later became licensed. Just before the autumn 2008 crash, he ran The Alameda condo project that Barker Realty listed. “In 2008, we brought Warren into our management fold,” she said. “He just over those years showed such tremendous management and operational capacity, it was a no-brainer. Now we have this sort of knight in shining armor with the technological, cutting-edge, innovative knowledge of somebody who’s 30, and our 35-year veteran Merlin, David. It makes for the most dynamic management scenario in the marketplace.” The firm’s owners met in Santa Fe when Barker Realty was housed at Radio Plaza on Marcy Street. Lisa, originally from San Francisco, was working for KTRC Radio. David is a fourth-generation Santa Fean. His great-grandfather, N.B. Laughlin, ran out of money in Santa Fe while traveling on horseback from Texas to Colorado and went on to serve on the supreme court for the Territory of New Mexico. He began investing in real estate in the early 1900s. David’s father, Laughlin Barker, was a U.S. Navy aviator for two decades before starting out in the real-estate industry. At the beginning of this millennium, Barker Realty had about 20 agents. Today there are 45 — still in line with a desire expressed by the couple in a 1999 profile in this magazine to maintain the company at a medium size. But it is growing. In 2012, the realty, located in the historic Gross Kelly Warehouse on Guadalupe Street, expanded at the south end, adding 15 desks. The following year, Barker affiliated with Christie’s, increasing its listings visibility

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to high-end, international clientele. Now the company is poised to undertake an expansion that will give it another 10 desks. “We are expanding into the space at the north end of the building that now has Station Coffee,” Lisa Barker said. “They have many loyal customers, including people

the ground, and finishing up paperwork. “When I started in the business,” David Barker remembered, “the purchase agreement, which was the memorandum of contract, was one page. Now we have a purchase agreement that’s about 15 pages long, with all kinds of disclosures and information

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who use the Rail Runner, and it was a hard decision to make. People are saddened. We tried to find them another space in this building.” Barker Realty used to have that space and added an interior wall to create room for tenant Station Coffee. The remodel will begin on Jan. 1. “We are growing and I think that is due in part to some of the more innovative things we have provided our brokers with,” she said. One is the transactions coordinator the firm brought on to handle all of the detail work after a property goes under contract. And just last month, Barker also hired a listings coordinator, who handles all the details of a new listing, including marketing forms, getting signs in

sheets and requirements imposed by the Real Estate Commission and the City of Santa Fe; it just goes on an on.” He said the Sacks promotion “was a natural. No, it’s not a controlling interest in the company, but it’s a significant portion and nobody’s more deserving than Warren, with the dedication, the hard work, and the changes he’s helped us make. I think it’s going to help us become a much stronger, better company.” Asked if the recent changes will allow him to relax a little, Barker responded, “No, this is about what we can provide that’s more effective for our associate brokers. It’s ramping up the game.”

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CCC museum proposed for NPS building By Paul Weideman The sign at the front entry of the historic National Park Service building on Old Santa Fe Trail says, “Building access by appointment only.” That’s a new situation for the adobe office building that has long also been a cultural resource open to the public. It formerly had a superintendent, a trained uniformed staff, a general management plan, a cultural landscape plan, an interpretive plan, exhibits, brochures, and an active program of public education, according to a briefing paper prepared by Jerry L. Rogers. Rogers is a former National Park Service (NPS) associate director for cultural resources and Southwest regional director. He is one of a group of people concerned about the fact that the grand courtyard structure, built from 1937 to 1939 by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), is now for the most part closed to the public. Local preservationist Alan “Mac” Watson said this ad-hoc group has met with staff from New Mexico’s congressional delegation. The group’s idea to have the building declared a national historic site or a national monument with displays about the CCC and Works Progress Administration was taken up by the Santa Fe City Council. On Oct. 8, the city’s governing body adopted a resolution to that effect and forwarded it a week later to Governor Susana Martinez. The resolution also supports maintaining the NPS building’s current staff of approximately 70 employees. Asked in mid-December about the building’s status, James Doyle with the National Park Service Intermountain Region office in Denver said, “We have no plans of shutting the building down or reducing staffing. With regards to keeping the building open to public, that’s always been our goal. It’s a historic building with some historic artifacts inside. But we had problems with the reliability of the security service, so sans any 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 some point to be able to reopen to the public. “There have been moves to redesignate it as the Southwest Regional Office as it used to be but that is beyond our abilty; Congress has directed us how to operate. But this is a key operational building. We have important staff there that do both regional and national work for the Park Service, so it’s an important resource for us.” At 24,000 square feet, the Park Ser2 8 JANUARY 2 01 5

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vice’s former Southwest Regional Office is probably the largest adobe office building in the country, according to the files at the Historic Santa Fe Foundation (researched by HSFF volunteer Debbie Lawrence). The major work force came from CCC

Camp #833 based in Santa Fe. The Works Progress Administration was responsible for artworks and other furnishings. The city resolution notes that “The CCC and WPA offered meaningful employment and cultural uplift to millions during the

Great Depression.” Among the other CCC accomplishments in this area were the rock lining along the Santa Fe River through the city, the lodge and shelters at Hyde Park, and Bandelier National Monument’s roads and dozens of buildings, and the furniture inside those buildings. Most of the 200 workers on what the city’s resolution calls an “outstanding example of institutional adobe architecture” were men aged 17 to 23 from Hispanic families in the area. For $30 per month, and room and board, the men hand-mixed and formed more than 280,000 adobe bricks for the walls that are between two and five feet thick. They also hand-peeled the pine vigas and made heavy, intricately carved furniture for the offices. Much of the earth for the adobe bricks came from the excavation for the building. Foundation stone was quarried near Canyon Road. Ponderosa pine logs for vigas and corbels came from the CCC camp in Hyde Memorial State Park. Flagstone for the floors in the lobby and conference room, and for the paving under the courtyard portáles, came from a Pecos ranch. NPS architect Cecil Doty designed the building in the Spanish-Pueblo Revival style that jibed nicely with the Park Service’s developing “rustic” design aesthetic. Doty’s skill in what is sometimes called “parkitecture,” exercised on numerous visitor centers and other NPS buildings, was learned from NPS architect Herbert Maier, who hired him in the early 1930s. The style emphasizes a relationship to local architectural tradition and the use of local materials in harmony with the surrounding landscape. For the Santa Fe job, Doty tailored his design to local precedents with help from his construction foreman, artist Carlos Vierra. Funding came from the WPA Federal Art Project for artworks including ceramic vessels by Maria and Julian Martinez of San Ildefonso Pueblo, Lela Gutierrez and Eulogia Naranjo of Santa Clara Pueblo, and Agapita Quintana of Cochiti Pueblo; paintings by Victor Higgins and E. Boyd; nearly 50 rugs, most Navajo-made; etchings by Gene Kloss; and lithographs by B.J.O. Nordfeldt. The Park Service’s regional landscape architect, Harvey Cornell, designed the site and courtyard. For 56 years, beginning in 1939, the Old Santa Fe Trail Building served as the regional headquarters for the National Park SEE Park Service on Page 31

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Park Service continued from page 28 Service. In a recent guest column in The New Mexican, former State Monuments director José Cisneros said the Southwest Region of the National Park Service was abolished in 1995, “victim to a reorganization.” Cisneros said that a historic site or national monument designation “may be worth some consideration,” but he favors “the larger effort to restore the building to its former function as a Regional Office by restoring the Southwest Region to its position as the most historic region in the National Park Service.” In November, Nancy Meem Wirth, a lifelong neighbor of the Old Santa Fe Trail Building, wrote that she was “delighted” with the City Council’s recommendation. The practical effect of its closure, she stressed, “has been to deprive our community of a cultural and aesthetic resource that we have long valued.” A month ago, in another guest piece in the newspaper, Jerry Rogers said the old building “simply must remain the fundamental element of our community life and heritage that it has been for decades. He described it as “nationally significant for

National Park Service Building, Santa Fe, 1965, by The Santa Fe New Mexican courtesy Palace of the Governors Photo Archives (NMHM/DCA) Neg. no. 025831

its architecture, for its association with the national park idea, and as an artifact of the Hispanic culture whose history is inadequately recognized in the United States.” Rogers wrote that the 1906 Antiquities Act “authorizes the president to create

national monuments from places in the public domain that meet exacting criteria of significance. The Old Santa Fe Trail Building is in the public domain and meets these criteria.” The National Park Service celebrated the

building’s 75th anniversary this summer. About the move to create a CCC/WPA museum there, James Doyle said, “We certainly wouldn’t oppose that. However Congress directs us to operate the building, we will.”

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About those commitment issues When you receive your commitment, verify the proposed insured on the schedule A. It may be you or another designation. Look for the contract sales price and compare the loan amount to your contract. If it is all cash then no need to worry about the loan amount. The boxes should be checked for an owner’s title insurance policy and loan policy, if not paying cash. Check the estate or interest in the land described and referred to in the commitment (fee, leasehold, etc.). Look for a date and time. Look at the land description. It should not be an address; it should be a complete legal description. If these items do not appear on your commitment Schedule A, you should ask your attorney, Realtor, and escrow agent why they are not there. There are specific title commitment issues: Easements: An easement gives persons other than the owner access to or a rightof-way over the homeowner’s property. Easements should be considered, espe-

cially if the buyer is considering changes such as improvements and use. CC&R’s and other deed restrictions: The declaration of covenants, conditions and restrictions for a homeowner’s association is recorded against the property. CC&Rs can be enforced by an association, or it may be enforced by the other homeowners. As a buyer, you should carefully read the CC&Rs and any other documents affecting the property and usage. Access: Failure of the public records to disclose a right of access to the property will be noted in the commitment. Landlocked property may be sold. The lack of access must be disclosed to the buyer. Military airports: Buyers in the vicinity of a military airport will appear on the commitment. Judgments: A recorded judgment is a lien on all real property. A judgment lien against the seller usually must be paid prior to the escrow closing. Bankruptcy: If the seller has filed bankruptcy, the bankruptcy trustee will

have to approve the sale before escrow closing. A court order may be necessary. Be prepared for the time involved. Liens: There are numerous types of liens that may need to be paid and released before the escrow closing. These liens may include state and federal tax liens. In a federal tax lien the government establishes its interest in the property and any property acquired after the lien is filed. Endorsements: In addition to the coverage available under the title insurance, additional coverage can be obtained through endorsements. You should ask for everything that is available. Then make a decision after the explanation for the products that fit. If they cannot explain, or if they say, “There are no additional products” then find someone who can really help you. Title Insurance Policy: The title insurance policy is issued after recording. The title insurance policy does not insure that a title defect will not occur; it insures

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that if a title defect occurred prior to the policy date; the buyer will be indemnified if the defect cannot be cured. It is extremely important to read the commitment completely. Consult with your attorney. It may be the best money you spend for a lifetime of comfort. Otis Phillips has been in the title business since 1978 and has served as an independent title agent, in direct office management, and in the underwriter arena in 14 states. Contact him at nmabop1@yahoo. com or 505.577.3601. HO ME

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Barrel vaults, water feature enliven Spears abode By Paul Weideman THE HOUSE ARCHITECT BEVERLEY SPEARS DESIGNED for herself and her husband, Philip Crump, has not won any formal accolades yet, because it’s brand new. But there’s no doubt it will be an award-winner. The residence is a singular example of contemporized Santa Fe Style, broadly speaking, but it boasts a dominant feature that relates more to Rome, Morocco, and Mexico: the barrel vault. “I just like them,” Spears said during a house visit in late November. “We go to Mexico a lot and many of those 16th-century churches are just a simple barrel vault.” There are two barrel vaults, offset. The main one is over the living room-dining room-kitchen space and is finished inside with thin slats of slightly whitened, clear pine. This section of the house is on a crawl space and the floors are light oak by R.L. Marek & Co., Albuquerque. (The couple’s colorful textiles and paintings — some by Spears — promise to contrast nicely with the pale woods and walls.) The eastern half of the house, which holds the master suite, is slab-on-grade and the floors are integrated-color concrete by Scott Golden, Golden-Seibert Co., Santa Fe. The long south face of the house is well-glazed to tap the sun’s heat energy in the wintertime, and at its base is a long, concrete trough pool and fountain. Inside the great room, the sunlight reflecting off the water creates a long, shimmering pattern that moves during the day across the walls and the vault ceiling. “When there’s very little wind, it gets very calm; it’s almost hypnotic,” Spears said. “The passive solar is working great. The orientation is the optimum for solar, which is 10 degrees east of south. We have hydronic solar for hot water which helps to heat the house, too, because it’s a Life Breath [hydronic] furnace.” The architect made a little two-chair nook, part of which is all glass and projects out beyond the plane of the south wall, immediately adjacent to the pool. “That’s a great place to sit in the winter and just soak up the sun.” The house was built by Tierra Concept, Inc. Kurt Faust, one of the company’s principals, said it was a very interesting project. “It was a challenge, as it always is mixing steel and wood and figuring how things fasten to each other. We were using wooden I-joists in a way Beverley has done before, but the manufacturer said ‘Whaaat?’ 3 2 JANUARY 2 01 5

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

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

there to give a surface beyond the wood slats that was homogenous. It stretches the whole length of the room; that vault is 40 feet long, while the master-suite barrel

vault is 30 feet. The slats are also for sound dispersion because a barrel-vaulted ceiling will focus sound.” Spears, who had only been in the house for two months when I visited, emphasized that the house was finished, but that the furnishing and landscaping were not. She had been watering native piñons and had added ponderosa pines and crabapple trees. She was looking forward to indulging her great love for plants in designing and planting her garden, working with the natural landscape around the house. She was glad the construction project was complete. “I really didn’t have fun doing this, always thinking I should have done that or if I do this it means I have to do that. It was so different doing it for myself. For clients, I just tell them what I think and they accept it or not. Now, I see mistakes I made, whatever, but all in all I like it very much and it’s very livable and Philip likes it.”

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Ultimately the design was driven by the commitment to passive solar and also the barrel vaults. The barrel vaults provide distinctive interior space while producing an exterior with strong geometric volumes rising above the horizontal parapets. I like that. I used maple, stainless steel, natural concrete, white-glazed clear pine and drywall painted light grey to create a light-filled serene interior which is a good backdrop for furnishings both antique and modern. I wanted the house to be contemporary yet understated and restrained. I wanted it to feel timeless, solid and thick-walled yet open to the south for sun and the west for views. The connection to the outdoors was paramount: although the house is less than 3,000 square 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 which bounces sunlight into the room and reflects the sky and nearby pinon tree. This feature is part of the way the house embraces the sun and brings the outside into the house. The house reflects my devotion to sky, trees and grasses, fire, water, sunshine and silence. — Beverley Spears

Ah, New Year’s resolutions. So easy to make, so hard to keep. There are many strategies you can employ in 2015 that have the potential to significantly improve your net worth. Don’t procrastinate. What you do in the next month may have long-lasting impacts. Refinance. Don’t wait any longer. Be proactive and get your refinancing done now. Get the low rates while you can. Many people assume that they cannot qualify for a home loan. They think they don’t have enough income, or their home is underwater, or they don’t have enough equity. Don’t assume. Check with your lender this month. You may find that there are ways to lower your payments or pay off your home faster as you take advantage of annual percentage rates (APRs) in the 3’s and 4’s, even for jumbo loans. If you can’t qualify right away, find out what you need to do to position yourself to get approved later this year. Convert an adjustable-rate mortgage to a fixed-rate loan to take advantage of fixed, stable rates. Consider if moving credit-card and other debt to your home loan is a good option for you. Maybe you think you don’t want to borrow more money. But guess what? You already have borrowed the money and chances are your credit-card rates are in the double digits. If you feel you are not disciplined enough to overpay your new, lower-rate mortgage to pay off the old credit-card debt, then segregate the new debt with a home equity line of credit (HELOC) to pay it off and get your financial house in order. Either way, refinancing and paying off existing debts may end up saving you more in the long run. Get free and clear. Even a loan with a rate in the mid 4’s with 28 years remaining could be moved to a 20- or 15-year fixed-rate loan, cutting many years off the mortgage and potentially saving your net worth tens of thousands of dollars over the life of the loan. Consolidate your first and second mortgages into one new, low, fixedrate loan. Check with your loan originator to see how you can merge two mortgages on your home into one.

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Cash out equity in your home to buy an investment property or second home for retirement. How? Refinance your current primary residence and take extra cash out for the down payment on your additional home purchase. We are seeing a combination of low rates and low home prices, but it won’t last forever. Rent your new purchase and let the payments from your tenants help pay your mortgage. Grow your investment for retirement using short-term rental properties. Use rental payments from vacationers as a resource for monthly mortgage payments on investment properities. For as little as 20 percent down you may be able to own the property free and clear in 15 years. Address family matters now while the market is in your favor. If you are divorcing or need to take former partners off a mortgage loan, or need to remove yourself as a co-signer on a loan, refinancing now may be the right move for you. You’ve heard it for a couple of years now: refi refi refi. Even if you refinanced a few years ago, APRs in the 3’s and 4’s warrant one more look as you plan your finances for the next 10 to 30 years. Don’t wait and be sorry later. Contact your local lender to see if you may qualify. Francis Phillips (FPhillips@fcbmtg.com) is senior mortgage loan originator with First Choice Loan Services in Santa Fe. He has served as director of business development for national mortgage companies. He and his mortgage partners have funded and built three homes for Santa Fe Habitat for Humanity.

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The Applegate legacy sculpture and ceramics and took his artisNew Mexico became a state in 1912, Frank Applegate left a profound tic vision into every aspect of his ever-exso when Applegate arrived in 1921, Santa impression on the city of Santa Fe and is panding life. Furniture making, wood Fe was still very isolated from the rest considered by many to be the godfather etching, painting, and writing all flourof America. Much of the way of life for of Santa Fe Style. Born into a farming ished for Frank. Returning to some of his Santa Fe’s approximately 7,000 residents community in central Illinois in February original training in architecture, he set went on much as it had for centuries. of 1881, Applegate had established himout to create a home in the new style that English and Spanish were spoken, pesos self as a serious sculptor by fall of 1914. he saw around him. Blending Spanish Coand dollars were accepted currencies, and He trained at the University of Illinois lonial and the Pueblo Indian vernaculars, there was a free flow of culture between and then at the Académie Julian in Paris he immediately started construction on a the Anglo, Spanish, and Pueblo people. and became a professor at the School of home for his family. Francisco Romero y Applegate recognized that the western Industrial Arts in Trenton, New Jersey. Garcia sold him a piece of land The tale of how he came to measuring 800 by 56 feet for live in Santa Fe starts out 300 pesos. The weather held like many other stories, as a out and the Applegate famishort visit to a little town in ly was able to move into the Northern New Mexico. home by December. Built two After deciding to take stories high with adobe brick a year off teaching and and styled with a second-story tendering his resignation, balcony, buttressed walls, and Professor Applegate packed hand-hewn vigas, this iconic up his Model T and headed residence, located at what is west. In September of 1921, now 558 Camino del Monte Frank, his wife Alta, and Sol, is chronicled to be one of their 10-year-old daughter the best examples of SpanBetty arrived in Santa Fe for The Frank Applegate House photographed in 1937 for the Historic American ish-Pueblo Revival architecture a brief stay on their way to in Santa Fe. Pasadena, California, where Buildings Survey; courtesy Library of Congress Applegate’s friends and they planned to spend the colleagues included Fremont Ellis, Ansel expansion wouldn’t exclude Santa Fe for winter. When they arrived in town they long and he took an immediate interest in Adams, Will Shuster, and Walter Mruk, camped in an orchard overlooking the who were also romantic rebels inspired preserving the city’s architecture, culture, city during Fiestas. Within a week Santa by the beauty of the land and the modand natural beauty. Fe’s charm had captured him and he was Once in Santa Fe, Applegate’s life took a ernist ideas of their time. Applegate built already negotiating to purchase land to or remodeled several other homes in the dramatic turn. He abandoned traditional build upon.

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style he considered “livable sculpture.” His final residence was the renovated and expanded de la Pena house at 831 El Caminito. One of the last large Spanish haciendas, the Frank Applegate Estate, as it is now known, is considered one of Santa Fe’s most historically and architecturally significant buildings. He lived here until his untimely death at age 50. Both of his homes are presently on the market awaiting the perfect buyer. For more detailed information regarding Frank Applegate, please refer to Frank Applegate of Santa Fe: Artist & Preservationist by Daria Labinsky and Stan Hieronymus. Roger and Melissa are Realtors at KW. Call them at 505-699-3112, email twicethesellingpower@gmail.com, or follow them on Twitter @CarsonandCarson and at www.facebook.com/carsonandcarson.

Recent Home & Land Sales Sales data for the period Nov. 19-Dec. 18 from Santa Fe Association of Realtors MLS reports. Not all sales are reported.

Homes 63,500 65,000 68,000 70,000 70,000

119,000 120,000 165,000 167,000 171,000 179,000

184,000 185,000 189,900 190,000 190,000 190,000

Homes 335,000 465,000 608,000

192,000 205,000 209,625 210,000 215,000 225,000

225,500 235,000 236,000 242,000 265,000 310,527

618,000 635,000 645,000 690,000

320,000 369,000 432,000 Land 75,000 235,000

Homes 391,500 981,500

1,100,000 1,378,250 Land 1,350,000 Hom mes 117,0 000 190,0 000 278,0 000 293,0 000 310,5 500 386,5 500

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Land 52,500 105,000

105,300 115,000 185,000

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Homes 171,000 235,000 242,500 285,000 400,000 407,500

Homes 86,500 115,000 250,000 250,000 285,000 295,000 315,000 350,000 364,000 385,000

389,500 550,000 560,000 634,000 Land (None)

450,000 500,000 525,000 645,051 670,000 689,000 720,000

435,000 515,000 545,000 553,300 600,000 638,000 650,000 685,000 750,000 795,000 800,000

724,500 727,250 802,500 850,000 925,000 Land 395,000

800,000 900,000 1,146,200 1,200,000 1,225,000 1,275,000 1,525,000 Land 51,000 180,000

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Land 105,900 Homes 209,300 220,000 235,000

249,000 258,423 267,000 278,000

285,000 295,000 295,000 310,000

325,000 356,000 365,000 374,000

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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, won two sustainability awards — from the U.S. Green Building Council-New Mexico and from ECOHOME — for an energy-efficient residence called VOLKsHouse, which he developed in partnership with Jonah Stanford. Mojarrab hopes 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 incorporating a graywater system not being used in the U.S. and we’re going to put the whole plan on the website so everybody can just build it, so you don’t have the architect fees.” In mid-December, the architect won an honor award from the American Institute of Architects-Santa Fe for his own office, an adaptive reuse project that involved conversion of a former Taos Cow Ice Cream freezer. The 550-square-foot building has an excellent insulation factor: what used to keep ice cream inside from warming up in the summer now keeps Mojarrab and his staff warm in the winter and cool in the summer. “It has a great thermal break: if you don’t have that conductivity, you can maintain temperature, and that’s our specialty. It was just a metal box inside,” Mojarrab said during a recent visit. “The metal sheeting is just a veneer. In the summertime it may be hot outside and you come inside and it’s nice.” He painted the visible, structural I-beams yellow, added ribbons of white panels that run along the ceiling and walls to break up the expanses of metal, and used them to anchor lighting units faced with polycarbonate. “The contractor had some doors and windows in his yard so we salvaged things. That’s why nothing matches here,” he laughed. Clean, affordable Ikea furniture completed the office, which has been in use now for a year and a half. “Our office believes you don’t have to start new for every project,” Mojarrab said in an e-mail. “With the uncertainty of the real estate market, there are many opportunities to re-adapt existing real estate inventory to successful and responsible projects.” About five years ago, Mojarrab got involved with the Interfaith Community Shelter and converted (pro bono) the old Pete’s Pets space on Cerrillos Road to serve Santa Fe’s homeless population. His studio won a competition last year for workforce housing in Clovis. “We re-used and reconfigured five existing buildings to accommodate 15 rental units and the community building. These projects are in-line with our beliefs that there are many ways to accomplish high-performance ‘green’ building.’” He talked about the sea change in thinking from the days of the beautiful, transparent Farnsworth House by Mies van der Rohe and the Philip Johnson Glass House. “We grew up with those as the icons, but that is when energy was not a big concern. Our priorities have changed. As an architect you feel a social responsibility. Back then it was all about design. And computers have changed the profession quite a bit. Now when we do the design [with BIM — building information modeling — software] we can simultaneously

The interior and exterior of the former freezer

see the energy use. The computer enables you to go places you couldn’t even enter a few years ago. I can’t wait until the time when you just think about a structure and you can see it on your monitor. Instead of Google glasses, you have a Google helmet. After all, the brain is just a bunch of electric neurons.” Mojarrab, educated at California Polytechnic State University, has been in Santa Fe for 20 years. His wife, Carol Ware, with bachelor’s degrees in fine art and architecture from Rhode Island School of Design, sometimes collaborates on her husband’s architectural work. (The firm name was formed from the first two letters of their last names.) As Mojarrab continues with value engineering to try to increase the affordability of VOLKsHouse 2.0 for consumers, he’s also looking forward to a major project in Papua New Guinea. WAMO was hired by Shepley Bulfinch, Boston, to do the residential component of the Enga Provincial Hospital campus in that Oceanian nation. During the

interview, he joked that he was leery about having meetings about 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 a delightfully screwy idea, an architect’s dream or an architect’s nightmare, putting an office in a freezer... It’s a great advertisement of civic and environmental responsibility: we’re willing to reuse the grungiest of grunge for ourselves in order to have the opportunity to make better places for others, as well as a demonstration of the creative potential of the people who work there.” HO ME

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

Architect’s Homework wins award By Paul Weideman A MAGAZINE DELINEATING AFFORDABLE-HOUSING NEEDS AND OPPORTUNITIES IN SANTA FE COUNTY was described as “probing and comprehensive” by the jury chairman for the 2014 design awards of the American Institute of Architects-Santa Fe. “We were not sure if this is ongoing or a stand-alone, and we didn’t care,” said Alan Chimacoff of the Homework magazine produced by a team led by Suby Bowden + Associates. “It is essentially a road map to afford the creation of high-quality, affordable architecture for housing and that is a very very noble undertaking.” Chimacoff said the study inspires an understanding “that in fact affordable housing doesn’t have to be cheap and bad but in fact it can contribute urbanistically to the quality of the architecture of the environment.” Bowden said the document was born out of a 2006 Santa Fe County request for proposals to study sites and pick one as an investment target for affordable-housing funds from the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development. “We responded and in our interviews we learned that the county has no housing-needs assessment. That was the first thing we did.” The assessment was based on surveys done by RRC Associates, Denver. Then Bowden did a chart that looked at ownership and rentals, as well as special populations including the pueblos and the homeless. “What was a huge discovery was that the HUD requirements you have to follow for financing and that both the city and county had required was for 3- and 4-bedroom homes, but over 60 percent of the people in Santa Fe County are in a one-bedroom situation: it’s just one or two people. So the county’s affordable-housing program shifted in what types of developments they would encourage and require, as well as working up to a dialogue with HUD that the requirements should match local needs, not needs defined in Washington, D.C.” After interviews with more than 200 people, the firm studied 58 sites and assessed them for appropriateness on a matrix of factors including size, schools, zoning types, infrastructure, proximity to transportation, and water availability. They prioritized four sites: the county’s former

Public Works Department site on Galisteo Road; a site in Agua Fria Village that belonged to Olivia Tsosie, who was willing to donate it to the county; the large San Cristobal site on N.M. 14 that is owned by the State Land Office; and Rancho Viejo — Bowden said Ike Pino, who was managing the development at that time, loved the idea of a senior housing project on the Rancho Viejo plaza. Bowden’s team took the Galisteo site, ran it through the matrix, and developed a 120-unit, mixed-income, mixed ownership (owners/renters) housing project. She realized they needed to create a magazine to make all the information they had assembled accessible. In the magazine’s introductory article, writer Zane Fischer states that home prices in the county had escalated out of proportion with wage increases. “This magazine,” he writes, “is dedicated to helping residents of Santa Fe County find and afford their own safe haven. (It) lays out a set of principles to guide housing strategy, including the tenet that ‘the entire community including residents, businesses and government have the responsibility to work together to address housing needs.” Among the book’s seven essays are pieces by Dodie Salazar, who grew up in mobile homes and at the time of the

study headed the Santa Fe County Housing Authority; Ed Rosenthal of Enterprise Community Partners New Mexico; and Tim Vigil, who spent eight years building his house with his family. The jurors for the award praised the graphics and strong headings, among them E=MC2 for “An Affordable House”, Neighborhoods, Reducing Land Costs, and Innovative Design. The latter chapter offers efficient and cool-looking affordable-house types by Aaron Bohrer, Vahid Mojarrab, Lorn Tryk, and several other architects. The magazine closes with a community directory of the scores of local organizations offering housing assistance and counseling. Homework: A User’s Guide to Housing Affordability in Santa Fe County came out in late 2008, just as the national economy was crashing and nobody could get a loan. “I recently met with Santa Fe County on this and they still think the economy is not stable enough to get the loans they need,” Bowden said in December. “I was recently approached by St. Elizabeth Shelter and I introduced them to this package and said there are still some major developments here that could help the homeless. There are 13,000 homeless veterans in Northern New Mexico.” Bowden said about 40,000 people in the county have received copies of Homework. “We keep distributing these magazines, to just keep reminding people there are things you can do.”

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AIA-Santa Fe Honor Award: Galisteo Basin Preserve residence, by Archaeo Architects

Southwest vernacular honored and abstracted By Paul Weideman “COMPREHENSIVELY, WE FELT THIS WAS THE MOST SOPHISTICATED PROJECT WE REVIEWED, WITH THE VOICE OF AN ACCOMPLISHED ARCHITECT AT WORK.” Alan Chimacoff, principal of ikon.5 architects in Princeton, New Jersey, had that to say about a Galisteo Basin Preserve home designed by Archaeo Architects. The occasion was the 2014 design awards of the Santa Fe chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) on Dec. 11. “The big idea [of the residence], which is a great big spread pinwheel of long organizing walls standing from the living core of the house out into the landscape, is an intense spatial composition and a true interweaving of building and landscape,” said Chimacoff, chair of the awards jury. He spoke of the “purposeful ambiguity of where the boundaries are between inside and out,” continuing that “the two colors of wall, a warm gray, a lighter one and a dark one, recede and advance in the landscape in ways that promote that ambiguity. But at the same time there is this great differentiation by this one intensely red - a la Luis Barragan - wall that emphasizes the heart of the house and in the long view in the landscape it’s quite an important punctuation mark that says, Look, there’s a special happening in this location.” The house, built by Hurlocker Homes, was featured on 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 — floor plan, 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 David Mullin, Hurlocker project manager, for his “meticulous”

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attention on the house project. The residence is located on a 160-acre homesite, on a building envelope that was defined by the Galisteo Basin Preserve, which is being developed by the Commonweal Conservancy in a manner that conserves much of the basin in its natural state. Commonweal has chosen building sites that avoid petroglyphs and archaeological sites. “We had to avoid a couple of spots where they found some artifacts, and just to the south of the house are some [prehistoric] terraced planting areas,” Dick said. “Other than the building envelope, all of that is dedicated open space. “The house and landscape intertwine; the northern portion of the house is excavated into the land while the southern portion rises to meet the panoramic view.” In a statement, the architect wrote of the house “adhering to, yet abstracting, the underlying principles of American Southwest vernacular architecture.” The team incorporated sustainable-building practices, including roof-water harvesting, a 57,000-watt photovoltaic array, 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 other three look out to Cathedral Hill over by Lamy, out to the Basin, and the views to the Ortiz and the Sandias. If my ship came in, I would do landscape art. Michael Heizer, James Turrell, and Andy Goldsworthy are the guys that get my blood pumping. And so, in a way, I was slightly moving into that territory by sliding these walls out into the landscape. But at the same time I was trying to frame those views. I really did try to do that, to let the house give itself over to the landscape.” Dick has been working in Santa Fe for 23 years. The native of northern Nevada earned his bachelor’s degree in architecture at the University of Idaho and a master’s in architecture from Cornell Univesity. He started working in the field in Manhattan, including for Steven Holl. In December, he had to review 125 houses and multifamily units as a juror for the national AIA housing awards. An interesting non-residential project he’s working on is a chapel for the Rivera Funeral Home. “It’s a circle. It’s a cyilinder and the walls are battered out, as if it’s opening up to heaven. I’m stealing blatantly from James Turrell. I’m trying to imbue the space with a sense of spirituality but via natural light, because it’s a nondenominational chapel. So it’s kind of a theatrical black box: you can bring in icons of whatever religion and use different seating arrangements. “I have about a dozen projects,” he said, heading into 2015. “I’ve never been busier.”

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An open letter from new president of SF homebuilder association As the new year is now underway, I wanted to make a brief announcement and shameless plug for a local nonprofit so important to our home and housing industry. It is a great honor to steward the efforts of the Santa Fe Area Home Builder’s Association’s exceptional board of directors for 2015. The good work of SFAHBA encompasses such a diverse and far-reaching effect on our local community. SFAHBA is recognized as one of the most progressive and effective local homebuilding associations in the country. We are proud to be a trusted voice in Santa Fe, helping to shape the agenda and set the goals of forward-thinking policies at the city, county and state levels. Our commitment to sustainable development has resulted in the strengthening and refinement of the City of Santa Fe’s

green-building codes, and the development of a new water conservation rating tool, the Water Efficiency Rating System (WERS), soon to be implemented. Our weekly radio show hosted by executive officer Kim Shanahan airs every Monday at noon on KVSF 101.5 FM. Stay tuned for important insights into key issues facing our community and the construction industry. We are also very excited about the re-launch of our monthly newsletter, Building Times, visible at www.sfahba.com. In our increasing efforts to reach out to the Spanish-speaking portion of our community, we have begun a Spanish language section of our newsletter. Estad atentos para eventos de lengua españolas más en 2015. This year we continue to support state legislation to re-enact the Sustainable

Building Tax Credit and increase the development of local trades-based education in our schools. Our monthly luncheons, open to the public, cover a wide range of topics, including best practices in building and water conservation, and often we are able to host local and national politicians for open-forum discussions. In fact we are proud to be the go-to experts for many of our political figures seeking insight into legislative issues pertaining to housing, water conservation, and building codes. It is a great honor and responsibility to be elected president of this fine local organization and I look forward to working with all Santa Feans interested in home-building issues this year.

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Barbara Blackwell new SFAR pres As the New Year rolls in, the Santa Fe Association of Realtors (SFAR) welcomes a new team of leaders. Barbara Blackwell, affiliated with Keller Williams, will serve as SFAR’s president. Barbara’s colleagues recognized her as the Realtor of the Year in 2012 for her service to the industry and community. At SFAR, Barbara has served as a member of the board of directors, chaired the Community Services Committee, and served on numerous other association committees. She views herself as a service-oriented Realtor who has been with the same core real-estate agency since 2003 through several name changes or acquisitions. Before becoming a Realtor, Barbara worked at IBM for over 30 years in a number of project-management roles. She has a degree in business administration from the University of Nevada. Barbara hails from Pennsylvania but moved west, to Nevada, at the age of seven with her family. She has traveled extensively through her work and for pleasure. Barba-

ra would like for the Santa Fe community to encourage international clientele to come, visit and stay. She believes Santa Fe is a wonderful place to live, especially for active adults. Realtor Gary Bobolsky with Sotheby’s International Real Estate will serve as president-elect in 2015. Gary has been inspired by serving as first vice president for the association, gaining personal and professional insight, as well as maintaining level-headedness through all transitions and interactions that serve his peers and colleagues. He is excited to participate as a “voice” for his peers and an advocate for the local community, ultimately backed by his experience in all aspects of real estate. A native of Virginia and a graduate from Clemson University, Gary has been a recognized Realtor in Santa Fe for over 20 years. Melissa Pippin-Carson, a Realtor with Keller Williams, will take the helm as first vice president. Licensed since 2001, Melissa has been a very active SFAR

volunteer, serving in several leadership roles including chair of the Membership Committee, Multiple Listing Service (MLS) Committee, and Government Affairs Committee. She was a key player in the implementation of the MLS Green Features, which has been a growing trend and a key component of today’s building industry, even foreshadowing the city’s green-building code. Her concerns for the future of the association deal with the health of the membership and service to brokers in the evolving housing market and how best to educate the membership about ongoing technology changes. The Santa Fe Association of Realtors welcomes three new board members in 2015. Julia Gelbart with Santa Fe Properties has been in real estate for over 17 years, including selling real estate in Connecticut. She has been a past chair and is currently active on SFAR’s Professional Standards Committee. Andrea Lucero, a native of Santa Fe affiliated with Barker Realty, has been in real estate for 14 years.

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