Santa Fe Real Estate Guide January 2012 by The New Mexican

Santa Fe Real Estate Guide

January 2 012

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RAY RUSH

ay Rush and Tim Van Camp – know Santa Fe. They are consistently among the top producing agents – year in, year out. Whether it is a high or low market, Rush/Van Camp has the experience, insight and understanding of the Santa Fe real estate scene to guide their clients toward the right strategy for the times. There is a difference, and that difference is reflected in facts, data and most importantly, results. We invite you to know the difference. www.knowingsantafe.com

Direct 505.984.5117 Mobile 505.577.5117 ray@knowingsantafe.com

TIM VAN CAMP Direct 505.984.5118 Mobile 505.690.2750 tim@knowingsantafe.com

hank you to our clients, for your continued business and loyalty this past year. It has been a pleasure helping you with your real estate needs.

e wish you and everyone a prosperous and Happy New Year!

RANCHO ALEGRE A TRUE SOUTHWESTERN TREASURE 13 bedrooms, 11 full and 4 half bathrooms, with a total of 24,687 sq ft on 175.586 acres. MLS# 803749 Offered at $9,990,000

CASA DE LUZ

CALLE DE LUZ 3 bedrooms, 3 1/2 baths, with a total of 4,360 sq ft on 5.304 acres. MLS# 201103793 Offered at $1,995,000

CROSSING RANCH LEAPING POWDER ROAD 4 bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms with a total of 4,838 sq ft on 72.36 acres. MLS# 807211 Offered at $2,500,000

CERROS COLORADOS CONTEMPORARY

CERROS COLORADOS 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, with a total of 3,291 sq ft on 2.584 acres. MLS #201105109 Offered at $1,475,000

HILLTOP HACIENDA CAMINO OCASO DEL SOL – MCDOWELL BUILT 4 bedrooms, 5 full and 2 half baths, with a total of 5,250 sq ft on 2.9615 acres. MLS# 201003040 Offered at $2,500,000

MONTE SERENO MAGIC

BROKEN SHERD TRAIL 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, with a total of 2,800 sq ft on 1.058 acres. MLS #201105569 Offered at $1,025,000

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NEIL LYON GROUP NEIL LYON, CRB, CRS, GRI

DIRECT: 954.5505 CELL: 660.8600

EVELYN SPIKER, CRS, GREEN, RSPS

DIRECT: 954.5556 CELL: 930.0999

VANESSA RIOS Y VALLES DIRECT: 954.5522 CELL: 231.3708

2011 CLOSED TRANSACTIONS 77 Calle Ventoso West (S) 52-B Paseo del Pinon (B) 31 Calle Ventoso West (S) 8 Morning Glory (B) 144 Gonzales #9 (B) 2910 Rufina Court (SB) 4 La Vida Court (S) 49 Rancho Escondido (SB) 43 Rancho Escondido (B) 13 Chestnut Circle, Lot 919 (B) 3337 Paseo Segunda (SB) 22 Piute Road (B) 8 Lavadero Road (S) 14 Plazuela Intimo (S) 12-A Deans Court (S) 2232 Wilderness Arroyo (SB) 535 Douglas Street (B) 20 Lamy Drive, Lot 20 (S) 64 Paseo del Conejo (B) 14 Vista La Esperanza (S) 31 Graythorn (S) 36 Sierra Rosa Loop (SB) 24 Tano Escondido (S) 290 Circle Drive (S) 35 Entrada Descanso (SB) 704 Calle del Resplandor (B) 18 Paseo del Rancho (S) 1121 West Ridge Road (B) 50 Mustang Mesa, Lot 867 (S) 560 Piedmont (S)

$1,795,000 $795,000 $1,895,000 $699,000 $389,000 $200,000 $865,000 $13,500,000 $659,000 $475,000 $950,000 $695,000 $1,050,000 $635,000 $317,000 $1,975,000 $850,000 $299,000 $950,000 $649,000 $925,000 $850,000 $1,650,000 $2,750,000 $1,050,000 $695,000 $580,000 $550,000 $175,000 $1,495,000

UNDER CONTRACT 524 Camino del Monte Sol (B) 15 Calle Ventoso East, Lot 799 (S) 1055 Old Santa Fe Trail (S) 1054 Encantado Drive (B)

$1,450,000 $60,000 $1,350,000 $1,595,000

Prices shown are listing prices at time of sale. S = Seller, B = Buyer

January 1, 2012 I hope everyone reading this letter had a great holiday season. Retail sales and home buying activity were strong as we ended 2011, which indicates that many are now experiencing a comfort and confidence that we had all come to question in the past few years. We should all take this as a positive sign as we head into 2012. A complex set of circumstances created a bit of a surprising outcome in 2011. As we all know, property values have been declining significantly from their highs of 2006/2007. In some segments of our local market…very significantly. What defined 2011 was most buyers seemed to have reached the collective belief that Santa Fe home prices had finally reached their low point, or were very close. This conclusion, combined with incredibly low interest rates, encouraged many previously on-the-fence buyers to finally complete their purchases. But there is more to the story: In the past 34 years I have observed a very cautious attitude on the part of affluent consumers resulting in their being extremely careful with their assets. This circumspection allowed them to maintain (or build) financial strength so that they were in a position to comfortably take advantage of the extraordinary buying opportunities that were (and still are) available in Santa Fe. It is also worth mentioning that many who finally purchased in 2011 had been considering a move to Santa Fe or a Santa Fe vacation home for many years. Their patience was rewarded when all of the above factors came together, allowing them to move forward with confidence. The results of the above dynamics caused there to be an interesting end result. The higher-end segment of the market ($1,000,000+) saw a 21% increase in the number of sales in 2011 as compared to 2010. Contrast this to the number of sales below $1,000,000, which saw less than a 1% increase as compared to the previous year. The successes the Neil Lyon Group experienced last year were due to some very important partners. We worked with property owners who were realistic about the (usually painful) realities of the market and allowed us to be their guides as we successfully marketed and sold their properties. Is some cases we completed our assignments in weeks or months, in other cases it took us a year or two. We thank all our sellers for their trust and patience. We also had the pleasure of working with many buyers who were genuinely excited about purchasing in Santa Fe. Very few purchase in Santa Fe because of a “have to”. Almost all do so because of a “want to”. This single fact injects a very different and wonderful dynamic into our business. We worked with buyers who came from many states and a couple of foreign countries, making our transactions interesting, challenging and rewarding. I also want to thanks the 2 outstanding professionals who comprise the “Group” in the Neil Lyon Group. Evelyn Spiker, who joined my team in the summer of 2010, was rock-solid in her professionalism, her analytical skills, her diligence and a dedication to getting things done for our buyers and sellers, with their interests as priorities one, two and three. Vanessa Rios y Valles, who has been with me since the fall of 2004, has a role of such importance that it is difficult to reduce her value to the written word. Her diligence, extensive knowledge, skills and attention to detail are all unique qualities that combine to make her an incredible asset to our sellers, buyers and the Group. I am extraordinarily grateful to both Evelyn and Vanessa and our many buyers and sellers for helping make 2011 one of the most productive years I have experienced in my many years in the residential brokerage business. We begin 2012 with gratitude for the many successes we participated in last year, while feeling the weight of the work that lies ahead. Of the dozens of sellers and buyers we are now working with, we’ll be thanking many of them a year from now. That gives us plenty of incentive to go after the new year with great energy and enthusiasm. My thanks to all who are involved with the Neil Lyon Group, and I wish each of you a new year filled with good health, happiness and success.

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DARLENE STREIT 505.920.8001 dstreit@dstreit.com

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7 CAMINO OSITO $1,275,000 Pueblo-style home on 2.51 acres with views on a quiet cul-de-sac. Diamond plaster walls, gourmet kitchen, slate and wood floors, 2 master suites plus office/extra bedroom. Landscaping. Centrally located. MLS# 201104660

275 CIRCLE DRIVE $1,450,000 Amazing views over 100 miles to Colorado.The Badlands and the Sangres feel like you can reach out and touch them. Minutes to the center of town on fabulous Circle Drive.Approximately 4,800 sq ft on almost 4 acres with brand new high-end custom construction.Very light and bright 5 bedroom, 5 bathroom home with family room, cinema room, enormous 2-car garage, and fabulous walled entry. MLS# 905013

26 CAMINO SANADOR $1,075,000 Off Old Santa Fe Trail on almost 7 acres. Open kitchen, 4BR plus media room/fifth bedroom. Sunny open floor plan with fireplaces, high ceilings, privacy and views. 594 sq ft guest house, landscaping. MLS# 201104665

1312 LEJANO LANE $950,000 A tree-lined, gated drive, with a motor court, landscaped features and a separate service driveway, leads you to a truly unique home.The formal entry introduces a home full of warmth and elegant charm. Spacious and comfortable 4,700 sq ft. MLS# 201103158

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1124 CAMINO SAN ACACIO $839,000 Lovely home with views built by Jay Parks on a quiet street on the Historic Eastside, just two short blocks to Canyon Road. This three bedroom, two bath adobe/frame home features exceptional finishes throughout. MLS# 201101360

2 MESCALERO RIDGE $650,000 Adobe mountain retreat minutes from shopping, restaurants, and schools.This graceful and inviting home is a masterful example of Pueblo-style architecture. With stunning Ortiz and Sandia views, this wonderful light-filled home features Old World craftsmanship. MLS# 201102831

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1046 ENCANTADO DRIVE $865,000 Large estate with guest house, city lights and Sandia Mountain views, private terrascaped grounds. Incredible gourmet kitchen, perfect for cooks and entertaining indoors and out. Sunroom great for plants.Very close to the center of town. MLS# 201103501

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34 CALLE CAPULIN $550,000 Custom built adobe hacienda with separate guest casita, in the Las Lagunitas subdivision. Features high beamed ceilings, brick floors, plaster walls, radiant heat, gourmet kitchen with custom cabinetry and granite countertops, study/media room and kiva fireplace. MLS# 201105280

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22 CAMINO BARRANCA $535,000 Beautifully designed Aldea home offers graceful archways and lovely finishes. High ceilings, beams, vigas and granite countertops and stainless steel appliances. MLS# 201004579

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24 SENDERO DEL OSO $4,575,000 Seldom does a home of this pedigree become available. With 25 acres of lush surroundings as a backdrop, the current owners have stewarded an almost indescribable paradise straddling the Rio en Medio river.The home/guest house/studio configuration, totaling 3BR and 3BA, yields both privacy and intimacy within this double adobe Territorial construct of 4,900 + sq ft.The 15+ acre feet of water that accompany this estate allow for orchards, unparalleled lushness and natural beauty. If attention to detail and harmonious surrounds have ever called you, then this home merits your consideration. MLS# 201105634

521 CAMINO DON MIGUEL $1,650,000 Delightful 5BR, 5BA Eastside charmer loaded with great spaces, solar voltaic, and unexpected surprises. From the moment one closes the gate, one enters a world surrounded with imagination and whimsy totaling 3,800 sq ft.The two-story entrance signals arrival at a new crossroads, with the expansive living room in the foreground, and the “live” staircase with a most unusual twist leading to the second floor master studio/space and catwalk to a new additional bedroom. The main floor gives way to a connected second home that features a large office/family room space and two more bedrooms – all of which is surrounded by a large private walled yard. MLS# 201105636

1320 BISHOPS LODGE ROAD $2,450,000 Across from Bishop’s Lodge, old Tesuque comes to life in this classic old Santa Fe home. Incredible grounds backing up to the Little Tesuque creek. Separate house, 2 bedroom casita and incredible new game room make for a great flexible floor plan. A total square footage of 4,741 on 2.160 acres offers 5 bedrooms and 7 baths. Updated and renovated throughout, this is a rare opportunity to enjoy modern conveniences in and Old World setting. Lush, private grounds accentuate every aspect of this home. MLS# 201004447

“Congratulations Paul on a great 2011. Your finish in the top five out of 783 Santa Fe brokers is a testament of your commitment to your customers.” – Gregg Antonsen, Qualifying Broker, Sotheby’s International Realty

Paul McDonald

505.780.1008

paul.mcdonald@sothebyshomes.com

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1054 ENCANTADO DRIVE LY W NE

$1,595,000

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his truly exceptional property has not been available for over 10 years! Contemporary Territorial in design, the interiors are a graceful blend of informal and formal living spaces. High ceilings throughout, gorgeous hardwood and brick floors, oversize windows and glass doors take full advantage of the natural light. The kitchen combines an informal dining area, comfortable sitting space that focuses on a fireplace all in one large attractive area. Additionally there is a gracious living room with fireplace, a formal dining room and library/bar area with great built-ins for books and collections. MLS# 201103640

Fine properties to suit your Santa Fe lifestyle W NE

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1207 LA RAMBLA $795,000 Exceptional Los Miradores single level home renovated with a chic contemporary look. Light filled, large rooms, 14' ceilings in living room, wonderful floor plan. Superbly landscaped gardens with a shaded pergola. Private location with mountain views. Gated compound with pool and tennis court. MLS# 201105521

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653 CANYON ROAD, #1 $615,000 Steps from the heart of Canyon Road, this charming 2BR, 2BA home is tucked in the quiet and lush Compound Condominiums. Oriented around a sunny south facing courtyard, the home features a classic entry portal, a spacious living room with high ceiling, fireplace, and brick pavers. MLS# 201105486

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976 INDIAN RIDGE $689,000 Amazing views from this 4 bedroom, 3 bath home on one acre with remodeled kitchen and master bath. Vigas, beams and coved ceilings in the master, 2 kiva fireplaces, office/den off the master bedroom, and 2car garage. Features unobstructed Jemez Mountain views from the expansive deck. MLS# 201103962

For your new and evolving Santa Fe lifestyle, trust the Santa Fe Team to find your ideal property. Amid natureʼs splendor – Culture, Tradition, Community – savor the Art of Living!

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Shane Cronenweth 984.5158

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20 VISTA REDONDA $1,100,000 With sweeping vistas and Frank Lloyd Wright-influenced architecture, this 5,160 sq ft house and studio on 6.9 acres is exceptional. Featured are a 49 ft. great room with media area, massive fireplace with concrete mantlepiece, slate floors and mahogany cabinetry. The kitchen offers a walk-in pantry and 360-bottle wine keeper. The generous master has double baths, an office and mini-kitchen. One guest suite includes an adjoining study. Lovely outdoor spaces feature a terrific dining pavilion and mature landscaped grounds. MLS# 201101068

Caroline Russell 954.5530

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1110 OLD SANTA FE TRAIL $3,800,000 This stunning Eastside three-acre, gated and walled estate is a true oasis. The sophisticated five bedroom Territorial-style residence with its attached guest apartment is sited amidst lush grounds enhanced with expansive herringbone brick terraces, koi ponds, established gardens, a magnificent dining gazebo and glorious mountain views. Featured are an impressive owner’s suite, separate study, office, media and family rooms, and a fabulously equipped kitchen with sitting area. Luxury amenities throughout offer sublime ease and comfort. MLS# 201105322

954 SANTO NINO PLACE $1,395,000 Opening to amazing Sangre de Cristo views, this stellar one-level north side double adobe home with studio/guest house is irresistible. Magnificently updated and transformed, it includes a sumptuous great room with soaring ceiling, wonderful family and dining rooms, a sensational cook’s kitchen, a romantic master suite with kiva fireplace and enormous closet, plus a private guest wing. The main house has abundant Southwest design elements, delightful walled entertaining terraces, established landscaping, and 4-car garaging. MLS# 201101820

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33 SPIRIT COURT $1,195,000 Remarkable Sangre de Cristo and badlands vistas from this fantastic 2002 adobe house with large guest casita and studio, ideally located between Santa Fe and Tesuque. Entertain beautifully in the great room and the spectacular kitchen/family room. The private master suite includes outdoor hot tub with waterfall, and a 3-bedroom wing has a screening room. With lovely custom finishes, rich hardwood and stone floors, spacious terraces and portales, lighted sports court and 3-car garage, this gated compound is a superb value. MLS# 201104704

11 ABIERTO WAY $775,000 You’ll be transported by breathtaking mountains and sunsets seen from this chic 2008 Southwest contemporary Tierra Concepts home. Entertain in the dramatic great room with its beamed ceilings and richly pigmented plaster walls, and enjoy the sleek high-end kitchen. The superb floor plan includes a private office, and the master has a lavish bath with wonderful stone wall. An incredible living/dining portal accesses the landscaped, stonework-accented gardens. Refrigerated air conditioning, 3 fireplaces, 5-zone speakers. MLS# 201100580

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10 VIA VECINO $1,150,000 The towering Sangre de Cristo Mountains before you – what a rare and special setting for this handsome 2010 Tesuque residence! The marvelous great room with high beamed ceilings accesses a grand entertaining portal. The 29-foot master has a fireplace, sybaritic bath and private terrace. The impressive center-island kitchen includes high-end appliances and deep dining portal. Also featured are hardwood floors throughout, maple cabinetry, hand-troweled plaster walls, central air conditioning, and a heated 3-car garage. MLS# 201103183

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ONE-OF-A-KIND VILLA

EXCEPTIONAL DOWNTOWN BUILDING

Magnificent 360˚ views from this unique villa. The 6,130 sq ft home is poised on 1.3 private, wooded acres on a hill minutes to the Plaza. Antique doors, diamond finished plaster, high ceilings with coves, vigas, corbels, and beams. Hand-carved stone windows. Five fireplaces, skylights and a comfortable floorplan. Owner is a NM Real Estate Broker. $1,995,000

Currently an art gallery, or would be perfect for offices, a shop, or a restaurant. High ceilings, great floors, great light and ambiance. Very stylish and in fabulous condition. Unbelievable high visibility location between the Plaza and Railyard. NOW $529,000

SANTA FE’S FINEST B&B

SOPHISTICATED CONDOMINIUM

Minutes to the Plaza, in prestigious 1200 East, opportunity knocks! Clean lines and bright, open spaces make this custom built condo a rare find! Large rooms with high ceilings and beautifully landscaped outdoor spaces! Three BR, great master suite, cheerful eat-in kitchen, garage, and storage. $725,000

A historic adobe in perfect location downtown, it is a pretty walk 3 blocks to the Plaza. 18 guest rooms with stylish baths, plus live-in manager’s suite. Charming breakfast great room; elegant, comfortable public spaces, patios and deck. Character, ambiance, and Santa Fe style! Parking lot. Established perennial landscaping. $2,695,000

RANCHITO SANTUARIO

DIVINE EUROPEAN HOUSE & GUEST HOUSE

Expanses of open views in every direction yet total serene privacy. Wonderful floorplan with 3BR. Several living spaces, with panoramic views. High, pitched ceilings, stained concrete and marble floors, fun open concept kitchen. Outdoor living spaces look over Galisteo Basin. Stunning pool environment. $780,000

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European-style villa with high beamed ceilings, beeswax rubbed Venetian plaster walls, Italian tile floors, antique doors and columns, lovely finishes and fixtures, on 11 private acres. Expansive rooms and views, 3BR and baths, family room, 3,000 sq ft, plus a matching 3BR, 1,350 sq ft guest house. $1,295,000

Ashley Margetson CRS, GRI 984.5186 Cell: 920.2300

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410 CAMINO DON MIGUEL

Lilac gardens and 80-year-old trees embrace an adobe family compound reminiscent of mellow bygone days. The main house and studio of the late beloved artist Ted Rose were hand built using many traditional and handmade elements. The guest houses are much older, dating back to the days when Camino Don Miguel was a busy little mercantile street. $895,000

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113 CAMINO ESCONDIDO, #1 $385,000 Historic Eastside, a block from Canyon Road and across from the Santa Fe River. This cozy, romantic pied-a-terre is the essence of Santa Fe. Walk to galleries, restaurants and the Plaza. #201105632

41 BLUESTEM DRIVE $749,000 A wonderful home in a gated community, inviting patios perfect for entertaining with fabulous views, 3 bedrooms, a study, 3 baths, and an open kitchen area with a fireplace, plus a 3-car garage. #201102623

104 CALLE POCO $939,000 Beautiful and inviting home with guest house in the north hills on 1.6± acres. Lovely Sangre views, two bedroom suites in main house, media room, office, country kitchen, and outdoor entertaining area. #201104075

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David & Bonnie Sorenson DAVID 505.670.5515

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SantaFeRealEstateToday.com Informative • Comprehensive • Smart 1675 VIA BOSQUE $624,000 Executive custom home with great floor plan in the north hills of Las Estrellas. Elegant 3 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath, with sand slate floors, high-end finishes, portales, a 3-car garage, and Sangre views. #201102031

1723 RIDGE POINTE LOOP $424,500 Former model home with 3BR, 2 1/2BA, plus loft. High ceilings, upgrades, lots of natural light, portal, master suite with private deck, mountain views, professional landscaping. Great North end location. #201101592

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3101 OLD PECOS TRAIL #808 $650,000 Pinon B model, located on a private cul-desac next to a greenbelt. Two BR, 2BA with elegant upgrades: new kitchen bamboo cabinetry and appliances, remodeled bathrooms, and custom built-ins. #904637

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MARION SKUBI GROUP January, 2010 Anyone who has been involved or touched in any way by the real estate market in 2011 knows what a challenging year it’s been. Sale prices have risen slightly in some areas, but have not begun to approach the prices we experienced before the housing bubble burst in 2008. Other areas have seen a major increase in the number of sales over 2010, but continually decreasing prices. We have seen interest rates at all time lows. With lower prices and low interest rates we’ve seen the affordability index for home buyers at extremely favorable levels. But lenders have made up for that bright spot with underwriting standards that often make it impossible for home buyers to get a loan. The world may be full of uncertainty, but here are some of the things we’re grateful for that made 2011 another wonderful year for us: We’re grateful to live in a city that is truly special. We’re grateful to live in one of the most beautiful states in the country. We’re grateful for Santa Fe non-profit organizations like Kitchen Angels and the Santa Fe Symphony (and so many more) that feed the body and the soul. We’re grateful for colleagues who are the most professional in the business. We’re grateful to be part of a company that offers our sellers the best platform for marketing their properties, and our buyers the best service to help them achieve their dreams. We’re grateful to be part of a company that provides us with exceptional “behind the scenes” support. We’re grateful for a few lenders who know what customer service means. We’re grateful for our title companies and closing officers who go the extra mile to make closings as easy for our clients as possible. And most of all – We’re grateful to our friends and neighbors who have given us the compliment of referring their friends to us, And to our buyers who know the difference between taking advantage of the market, rather than taking advantage of people, And to our sellers who understand the market place and work with us as part of their team

Marion Skubi

ABR, CRB, CRS 505.660.8722 Marion@MarionSkubi.com

Johnnie Gillespie

Partner, Marion Skubi Group 505.690.1909 Johnnie@JohnnieGillespie.com

Aleka Moore

Operations Manager, Marion Skubi Group 505.954.0732 Aleka@MarionSkubi.com

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Emily Ivette Garcia CRS, Real Estate Broker

Excellence, ellence, with a touch uch of grace…

SPECTACULAR HOMES AT GREAT PRICES! CES! Extraordinary Restoration!

House, Guesthouse & Views

Sumptious mptious p & te Private

1121 North Plata Circle MLS# 201103472 $575,000

Rancho San Juan Casita MLS# 201104454 $375,000 ,000

Gated Canyon Road! oad!

Pojoaque Valley Pristine

Contemporary ontemporary Condo

112 La Vereda 73 MLS# 201104273 $900,000

653 Canyon Road, #16 MLS# 201003229 $700,000

189 CR 113 13 MLS# 201102698 102698 $550,000

Adobe in the Heart of Santa Fe

Restored & Furnishings

Spacious Pueblo Home

Solid Adobe Casita

960 Acequia Madre MLS# 201103788 $690,000

117A 11 Paseo Nopal MLS# ML 201102699 $625,000

207 Closson #201100640 $450,000

1144 D Canyon Road ad MLS# 201103194 94 $375,000

812 C Calle Sargosa MLS# 201102257 $200,000

Magniﬁcent H House & Views

60B Estrada Maya #201104076 #2 $950,000 $

Country Living Perfect 3 Lucerito Court MLS# 201103726 $175,000

Land in Lamy, NM

6 Cerro Circle MLS# 903266 $60,000

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EXCEPTIONAL LIVE/WORK LOFT

AUTHENTIC CANYON ROAD

SANTA FE INTERNATIONAL

Marquez Place – Handsomely finished contemporary 2 bedroom, 2 bath live/work townhouse loft in a park-like setting has light-filled interior spaces plus a private garden. The main level great room includes 3 distinct areas with tall ceilings, large windows, scored concrete floors and doors opening to garden plus galley kitchen. Upstairs is a second bedroom, bath and laundry. MLS 201006300

In the heart of it all this remodeled 2BR, 2BA home with 2nd floor den and view deck shines. The entry courtyard transports you to a lush world with rocked path, wildly wonderful plantings and kiva. A grand living room with handsome fireplace overlooks the garden. Master and 2nd bedroom are both on the main level along with an outstanding kitchen and den/dining room. MLS 201102871

PERFECT SETTING

Architect Robert Zachry and builder Michael Hurlocker's compelling work merge in this remarkable 3BR, 3.5BA residence that incorporates the best of 21st century architecture with the sensibilities that make Santa Fe unique. Sleek, sophisticated yet intimate, with commanding views, it is crafted with steel and wood beams, glass and plaster surfaces and tinted concrete floors. MLS 201103323

On 4.9 lush Sunlit Hills acres, this eclectic and charming 1,788 sq ft, 2BR, 2BA adobe home with den/office exudes the essence of Santa Fe. Gently curved walls wrapped in plaster, wood floors and beamed ceilings, gardens and view deck, enclosed area for pets, user-friendly covenants and a view west to the Jemez shaped by the nearby hills offer a remarkable country living. MLS 201105313

OFFERED AT $335,000

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Architect nets Citation Award for Santa Fe house By Paul Weideman

uilding green doesn’t necessarily mean spending lots of it, according to Gabriel Browne of Praxis Design/Build. His Rothstein/Meckler Residence won a Citation Award from the Santa Fe chapter of the American Institute of Architects. The new house (in itself a rarity these days) qualified for the highest, Platinum, certification in the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) rating system — and was done for about $189 per square foot. Scott Rothstein and Marcia Meckler approached Praxis in 2009 with a desire to retire in Santa Fe. She is a doctor with the U.S. State Department and he is an artist. They had “a very limited budget” for a home, Browne said. The lot is part of Tres Placitas del Rio, a 2.5-acre cohousing project located at 1710 W. Alameda Street, with 11 households around a large open space. “The clients came to me with a 2,300-square-foot, Lshaped lot that wraps around two parking spaces [defined as part of the Tres Placitas del Rio site plan], and they wanted a 3-bedroom house, 1,700 square feet, with a detached studio. It was an almost impossible program.” The solution was to take the typical house and turn it upside-down. The master bedroom and the owners’ studios are on the ground floor; one of the studios is detached, and the space between it and the larger building forms a little courtyard. Notched into the tops of the tan-stuccoed groundfloor buildings is a gray-stuccoed, deeply cantilevered, rectangular box that comprises the gallery, kitchen, and dining room. A tall, narrow, mass, enclosing the stairway, is stuccoed red to clarify the entry. “The whole place was designed around this gallery, which is what most people call the living room,” Browne said. “Scott talks continually about curating his folk-art collection into this space. Designing it this way also takes the living spaces and lifts them away from parking and traffic, so they’re quieter and more serene. “The clients have lived for years in Asia, so tight, intimate spaces like the tiny courtyard aren’t the least bit troubling to them. They also weren’t terribly concerned about green ideas, but we had to meet the city’s greenbuilding code and then I realized we weren’t far from a LEED certification. They told me if I wanted to get the New Mexico sustainable-building tax credit, I could pursue it. So I did radon abatement, improved the insulation, including under the slab, and the two walls facing on Alameda are concrete block for acoustic and thermal mass.” Among the nearly 30 categories on which the Praxis house gained substantial LEED points were exceptional energy performance, environmentally preferable products, very high-efficiency fixtures and fittings, drought-tolerant landscaping and rainwater harvesting system, and the fact that this was an infill project. 14

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Browne says this is the seventh house in Santa Fe to achieve the LEED Platinum certification, “but it is the first non-production, detached custom home in New Mexico to do so at minimal cost.” The Rothstein/Meckler house also achieved the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Indoor AirPlus certification. Looking at materials used in the home, the floor of the gallery is sealed particleboard, made from sustainably

harvested wood. This simple, low-cost surface contrasts with handsome slate-tile floors in the small kitchen and bathroom. The bathroom shower has walls of corrugated steel, the fixtures attached with custom-made trim plates that are simultaneously reminiscent of New York industrial and New Mexico tinwork, and with a vertical slot of glass bricks bringing light from outside. The kitchen is equipped

with stainless-steel appliances and birch cabinets. “These appliances are very basic,” Browne said. “I spent more designing the kitchen than I did building it. “I designed the whole house in Google Sketchup. My clients have it on computer in Bangkok. I could e-mail the plan to them and while I was sleeping they’d open it and move around inside and change a wall height or something, then when I woke up, I’d have a four-page email all about it. It was totally collaborative.” ---------------------------------AIA Santa Fe held its annual Design Excellence Awards on Dec. 8. Jury chair Harry Teague, who presented the awards, read the jurors’ comments about the Rothstein/ Meckler Residence. One of them, Glenn Rappaport, complimented the home’s “simple, stacked volumes that abstract and transcend the typical southwestern vernacular.” Teague, principal of Harry Teague Architects in Basalt, Colo., spoke of the “tough times” and said the AIA panel this year decided unanimously “under these extraordinary circumstances that this is not the right time for a fashion show! While good design has many varied criteria, we have chosen to emphasize qualities that to us are an appropriate response to our time. “In short we have chosen buildings that are functional, economical, efficient, nurturing of the community, sustainable, and authentic.” The other winners are Autotroph Design, Citation Award for Warehouse 21 and Citation Award for Chuska Apartments, Gallup (See story on Page 40); Ellis/Browning Architects, Merit Award for the Academy for Technology and the Classics (Story Page 18); and Atkin Olshin Schade Architects, Honor Award for Owe’neh Bupingeh Preservation Plan and Rehabilitation Project at Ohkay Owingeh (Story Page 36).

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996 Paseo del sur Charming 3,962 Sq/Ft Pueblo style home on Santa Fe’s Northside. Unique floorplan offers two living areas that can be used as one large home with two kitchens or a house and guest house that can be rented. The home has 4 Bedrooms, 4 1/2 Baths, four fireplaces, 3 car garage, and wonderful outdoor spaces with decks and patios. The setting is quiet and serene, perfect for full time living or a relaxing get-a-way. MLS #201105706 $765,000 Clara l. dougherty, 690-0471

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Talkin’ about the alchemy of space Architecture is truly one of my loves! From a very early age I have marveled at it. Reference books were extremely limited in my childhood home, but we had a Bible, a set of 30-year-old World Book encyclopedias, and a dictionary. Each of these extraordinary books had something mentioning architecture: the Parthenon in Greece or the Taj Mahal — incredible! Often I filled lonely hours reading and looking at the encyclopedias or reading the dictionary to pass time. I learned so much and became enamored with architecture in general. I knew then that the art of creating was what I would do somehow. Growing up in Santa Fe in the Sixties, the architecture that I was most familiar with was of course Pueblo style and Territorial style. However there were some unfamiliar gems that attracted my eye: spots of Greek Revival-style homes and the very Romanesque St. Francis Cathedral. This made my world much bigger and expanded my limited architectural vocabulary. My personal favorite style in Santa Fe

is Territorial; it is so romantic and lends itself well to both modern and traditional furnishings. I have had the opportunity and delight to work with many talented architects in Santa Fe. I had the pleasure to interview one of Santa Fe’s great architects: Wayne Lloyd of Lloyd and Associates, especially for this article. Thank you Wayne! • What has been your most favorite project and why? The “classic” answer is always the “next project.” I would have to say it is the Eldorado Hotel for a number of reasons. First, I had only been licensed for a year and half and had never done a hotel before. Second, I was doing it for one of the largest New York developers, who entrusted me with one of the largest projects in the state (for that year) in the heart of downtown Santa Fe. This of course required Historic Design Review approval which I obtained unanimous approval on the first meeting. The office was very busy at the time so we had to hire a dozen people to complete the project within the scheduled time frame.

• Why is architecture special to you? It’s all about creativity. Attorneys work with people resolving conflict or disputes; doctors work with people curing sicknesses and pain; architects work with people who want to create something new and wonderful. • When did you know that architecture is what you would do? Long before I knew what architecture was. My grandfather built barns in central Pennsylvania (where I grew up, fifth of eight children on a dairy farm). As a boy of five I watched him build barns and I knew then that when I grew up I’d be involved in buildings. • Who is the most inspirational architect to you and why? Santigo Calatrava from Valencia, Spain. I was in Spain five years ago as one of three U.S. firms competing in a design competition in the Costa del Sol and visited Valencia and toured Calatrava’s “Arts and Science” complex. Not all of the buildings were complete but those that we toured were fantastically creative in their form and structural repetition.

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• What is your favorite building in the whole world and why? I would have to say the Chrysler Building in New York City; it was built during a depressed economy, yet the Art Deco (my favorite style) design was not only important but has stood the test of time. I think most people immediately recognize it and its city. Lisa Samuel ASID, IIDA is a Santa Fe native and is owner/president of Samuel Design Group, located in the Railyard Artyard lofts. She is an award-winning interior designer (licensed interior designer #313), a lighting designer, and furniture designer.

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

Homes $44,000 $77,900 $102,500 $110,000 $115,000

$129,000 $140,000 $141,900 $142,000 $147,500 $148,000

Homes $225,000 $265,000 $420,000 $438,000

$150,000 $150,000 $160,000 $165,213 $170,000 $170,000

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$304,000 $380,000

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Land $125,000 $200,000

Homes $150,000 $175,000 $305,000 $335,000

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$1,090,000 Land $162,500

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$556,265 Land $114,000

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The Academy for Technology and the Classics, a broad arc on the landscape

Ellis/Browning has AIA prize for charter school By Paul Weideman

n “extraordinary response to the combination of school program and landscape.” That’s what a jury of architects called the Academy for Technology and the Classics, designed by Ellis/Browning Architects, Ltd. The 7-12 charter school facility, completed in August 2007, won a Merit Award from the American Institute of Architects, Santa Fe Chapter. The awards were announced in early December. Joe Browning was allied with the academy as it searched for a permanent site and finally brought the ATC into a bricks-and-mortar school. “The charter school started out at the National Guard and after 9/11 they had to leave,” Browning recently told Home over coffee. “They found a site near Genoveva Chavez Community Center and they set up a portable-classroom school. I met them there in about 2003 and they were determined to build a campus. “What they did first was find an architect. I volunteered with a group of ambitious parents and teachers who had little funding, but they knew I was the architect on Monte del Sol Charter School. The site we ended up with was free from Rancho Viejo. It’s across from the Institute of American Indian Arts campus, a great school, so it’s a 18

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compatible neighborhood.” When he began working with the public charter school on a campus design, there were about 250 students. The built plan is 14 classrooms. “The charter school vision is for a small classroom size and more individual rapport between students and teachers,” Browning said. “Mathematics and the classics of literature are important parts of the curriculum.” The price tag for the sitework, installation of infrastructure, and building construction was $4,776,000. Future expansion won’t be a problem, at least from a realestate standpoint, because it’s a 10-acre site. As explained in an Ellis/Browning concept statement, the school echoes the form of ancient settlements in New Mexico, with its north side bermed into a natural draw in the earth and its two-story, south-facing arc sheltering assembly, sport, greenhouse, and other outdoor activites. Berming makes use of the naturally insulating earth to minimize temperature extremes. “It’s a very simple-looking design, but there was an attempt to be part of the land on that grand, beautiful site,” Browning said. The firm maximized daylighting and passive-ventilation systems to cut energy use. Several of the other green values

in the 26,570-square-foot school are recycled-content steel framing; a reflective “cool roof ”; efficient lighting; roof rainwater catchment and pumice-wick irrigation; and permeable-surface parking areas. The approved design included an assembly space that would also have provided additional physical-education space, but there was no budget for that. Browning said school officials and parents are talking about building an outdoor amphitheater, and adding solar collectors, down the road. Browning and his partner, Lisette Ellis, are now busy with an activity that might seem unusual for an architecture firm: tearing buildings down. “We’re doing demolition work on the old Bruns Hospital at the Santa Fe University of Art & Design,” he said. “The state owns the site and is hoping to develop it.” But why architects? “Well, with a big demolition project like this, you have to plan and bid, and also a big component now is recycling, so we have a waste management plan. I think we’re recycling 75 percent of the wood, metal and concrete. This is more than a dozen buildings, about 80,000 square feet, and we’re documenting everything for the State Historic Preservation Office.”

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Storied Santa Fe building comes on the market By Paul Weideman veryone knows it as “the white building.” And in what other American town would people use such a moniker to describe a single building? Most cities have hundreds or thousands of white buildings. But this is earth-tone Santa Fe, and the structure at 206 McKenzie Street is not only white but tremendously distinctive, both for its history and architecture. “I enjoy romanticizing properties with Spanish names, but this one is just ‘the white building.’ Old names stick,” said Realtor Christopher Webster. “It’s an old friend.” Sotheby’s International Realty’s Webster and Tai Bixby are representing the property, on the market for $3.6 million. The marketing materials describe it as a Santa Fe landmark known for its “peeling white paint, high walls and mature trees, multi-paned windows and pots of red geraniums tucked into the balcony railings on secondstory French doors.” The Escudero property, as it was long called, was built in about 1882, although some portions may predate 1790. A century or so later, it was acquired by J.A. Martinez. A news brief in the Aug. 11, 1908, Santa Fe New Mexican, reported, “J.A. Martinez, wealthy sheep raiser at Arroyo Hondo, Taos County, but whose family home is in this city, arrived here last evening and will spend the fall and winter at the family home on Grant Avenue.” Martinez deeded the property to his daughter, Cleofas (Mrs. Venceslao) Jaramillo. Cleofas, née Martinez, was a native of the Arroyo Hondo community north of Taos. In 1898, she married Colonel Venceslao Jaramillo, a member of Territorial Governor Miguel A. Otero’s staff who would go on to serve as a senator in the New Mexico Legislature. The couple lived in El Rito until his untimely death in 1920. Cleofas Jaramillo moved to Santa Fe and was resident at the house in question from 1922 to 1932 and from 1938 to 1943. The first of the many additions to the property are believed to have been developed by Jaramillo in the 1920s. Her daughter met her end in this house. Eighteen-year-old Angelina Jaramillo was sexually assaulted and murdered here in 1931. Thomas Johnson, an African-American auto mechanic who had a history of property crimes, was arrested and convicted of the crimes. In Justice Betrayed: A Double Killing in Old Santa Fe, author Ralph Melnick substantiates the old rumor that the wrong man was put to death (the first to die in New Mexico’s electric chair) because of racism and a coverup — Santa Fe’s real-life version of a novel written three decades later: Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird.

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Cleofas Jaramillo went on to found La Sociedad Folklórica de Santa Fe in 1935, and authored several books, among them Shadows of the Past (1941) and her autobiography, Romance of a Little Village Girl (1955). In the three years between Jaramillo’s stays in the Escudero house, artist and developer Hazel Hyde lived there, and made some major changes. On the Griffin Street section, a second story and studio were added, and the facade was changed from Territorial to Renaissance Revival. Sometime after 1937, the courtyard walls were raised to roof height, “a major change to the building’s

appearance which makes it impossible to distinguish buildings from courtyards,” according to a 1995 historic building survey. Another notice in The New Mexican, this one in the social section of the April 14, 1939, paper, announced, “La Casa Cercada, the latest in Santa Fe’s rapidly growing number of apartment courts, will be officially opened to Santa Fe Monday by Miss Hazel Hyde... “Seven apartments, all with outside entrances, all practically soundproof, and all beautifully furnished with draperies, wall hangings, furniture, lace curtains, from all

Studio interior and summer courtyard photographs courtesy Chris Webster and Tai Bixby, associate brokers, Sotheby’s International Realty - Santa Fe, and Plaza Productions, a WEBSTER ENTERPRISES company. All other photos of 206 McKenzie by Paul Weideman

The white building at 206 McKenzie Street,

The white building at 206 McKenzie Street, courtyard over the world, picked up by Miss Hyde in her travels, are included in the new court...” In the kitchen of one of the apartments is a range hood created as a replica of an Old Mexico hood by Katherine Stinson Otero, one of America’s pioneering woman aviators, who moved to Santa Fe in the late 1930s, married the son of former Territorial Governor Miguel Otero, and was an architect and home builder for many years. A building at 142 Griffin Street — part of the structural history at the Escudero site — was demolished in the early 1940s when the property was owned by Edna Ballard, founder of the I Am religious organization. She had it until

1953. The I Am sanctuary is now in another white building, also having interesting architectural values, located at the corner of Old Taos Highway and Paseo de Peralta. When Hazel Hyde developed La Casa Cercada, each of the seven apartments had its own address: 144, 146, 148 and 150 Griffin Street, and 200, 204 and 206 McKenzie Street. Since 1958, the property has had one address: 206 McKenzie Street. Nine units ranging from 399 to 2,644 square feet comprise 206 McKenzie today. “The primary apartment building,” according to Webster, “is a two-story structure founded upon the original thick

adobe walls of the Jaramillo house.” Later additions were built using pentile (a brick produced by the not-too-distant penitentiary for about two decades, starting in the late 1920s), concrete block, wood frame, and brick. “This two-story part was apparently built in the 1930s,” said Jan Wisniewski, architect at Lorn Tryk Architects, which has the largest of the nine units. “The walls up here are fired brick. We know that because we had to drill into them for our computer wiring.” The 206 McKenzie property is not in perfect shape. There are places where the plaster needs repair. The windows are the old, single-glaze type, insulation is fairly thin, the heating systems are outdated, and a recent environmental assessment found some materials in the building that may contain asbestos, and painted surfaces that may contain lead. But the place has great soul, full of interesting, charming spaces and connections among the spaces. “And it’s right downtown and it has all these gardens and courtyards. It’s a magnificent property,” Wisniewski said. The two-story building — 11,923 square feet on a lot of 0.6 acres — is currently leased to both residential and commercial tenants and featuring a variety of historic and modern finishes. There are fireplaces and sun porches and courtyards, and 22 parking spaces. “The iconic White Building compound in the heart of downtown Santa Fe is now available for reimagining and reinventing. This is a rare opportunity to own a Santa Fe landmark,” the marketing materials say. “The original structure was built circa 1890 during the time that the Catron/Johnson/Griffin neighborhood was first developed around the Chile Line [Denver & Rio Grande Railroad] terminus that ended on nearby Johnson Street.” Webster said people with European sensibilities would love the place — “This building has a similar feel to what you’d find in Spain or Portugal or Italy.” Under its Business Capitol District (BCD) zoning, the white building is open to residential, office, art gallery, studio, retail, hospitality, multi-family, and restaurant uses. See http://santafesir.com/listing/201104763 for more information.

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Realtors help local nonprofits As the New Year rolls in, the Santa Fe Association of Realtors (SFAR) will welcome 14 local charities to its January membership meeting. They are invited to receive grants totaling over $6,000 to support a wide variety of programs to help those in need throughout Santa Fe. In the past eight years, SFAR has donated over $325,000 to community groups. In 2011, our Community Services Committee members raised funds through a super yard sale, annual dues raffle, and silent auction. These funds were in addition to contributions that Realtors made through annual dues billing. Part of the monies raised this year also supported the association’s “Charity Begins At Home” down-paymentassistance program for employees of nonprofit organizations. Local Realtors are part of the fabric of the community and these grants and programs reflect their commitment to Santa Fe. The Santa Fe Association of Realtors awarded a total of $6,470 to area community-service organizations, including Bienvenidos Outreach, Casa Milagro, Esperanza Shelter for Battered

Families, Food for Santa Fe, Girls On The Run Santa Fe, Heart Gallery of New Mexico, Kitchen Angels, Las Cumbres Community Services, Santa Fe Community Services, Santa Fe Habitat for Humanity, Santa Fe Recovery Center, St. Elizabeth Shelter, The Food Depot, and Youth Shelters. Youth, food and housing were the broad themes for the Association’s giving this year. Some of the programs provided through these grants range from T-shirts and medals for a local girl’s race day to providing homebound individuals with nutritious meals and homeless people with sleeping bags. These programs provide direct help to our citizens, adults seeking shelter, and the youth of Santa Fe. Realtors continued their generosity during the Las Conchas fire by providing two truckloads of food items to support local firefighters. And to help home buyers and sellers, SFAR hosted a Home Ownership Fair at Santa Fe Place with the support of our Realtor and Affiliate members. Many of these important community activities are highlighted in an 2011 End of the Year video that can be

viewed on our website, www.sfar.com. As we begin 2012, I will be officially leaving the Santa Fe Association of Realtors to explore some new options; I received a lovely Nambe plaque honoring my service at the annual SFAR meeting. My deep appreciation goes to all of the wonderful Realtors who have supported my leadership over the last five years. I would like to take the opportunity to commend the work of the Santa Fe Association of Realtors’ experienced and dedicated staff. Paco Arguello, our new interim chief executive, offers his financial acumen on a daily basis to keep our finances in order and will offer his leadership in the coming year. Aggie Chavez, SFAR’s membership development director, guides the association’s educational and membership programs, encouraging the development of our members’ real-estate knowledge, skills, designations, and certifications. Jennifer Roybal, our Customer Service Manager, offers direct member support while striving to improve customer service among her coworkers. Our multiple listing service (MLS) director,

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Michele Barela, works closely with members to increase their proficiency and knowledge of MLS rules and services as well as tracking local housing data. Serving as our professional standards director, Cindy Williams, works to ensure that the public is better served through our Realtor members’ adherence and understanding of the Realtor Code of Ethics. Happy New Year! Donna M. Reynolds is a consultant with the Santa Fe Association of Realtors. Contact her at 982-8385 or donna@sfar.com.

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Boomers flocking to Santa Fe The lure of Santa Fe’s exceptional qualities is attracting buyers from all over the United States. A 2011 Travel and Leisure article identifying Santa Fe as one of the top three resort areas in the country sure didn’t hurt. In the last several months it seems buyers, mainly Baby Boomers, have decided to wait no longer to grab their dream. Particularly for those retiring, Santa Fe offers beauty, great air quality and amenities that many large cities cannot offer. Many of the retirees have large retirement accounts from major corporations and can decide where to move to improve their quality of life. Recently one of my clients moving from Oklahoma after retiring from an oil and gas company expressed the advantages of the 7,000-foot altitude in terms of “no cockroaches, no humidity and no ticks and fleas on our dogs. We thought about moving to Florida or California

but the idea of giant fault lines and yearly threats from hurricanes turned us in the direction of Santa Fe.” All of us living here have already been convinced that all of the above is true. We each have our own reason for being here. But what we probably do not know for sure is what is really happening in the current real-estate market and what to expect in 2012. Well, families retiring in the next few years are seeking accurate answers so they can decide their future lifestyle. Values in Santa Fe are exceptional and interest rates are still excellent. In 2012 interest rates will continue to be lower then any period since post World War II. What a perfect opportunity for retirees! I advise that if you want to live in Santa Fe in the next two to five years, make your purchase in 2012 and do not wait until you actually retire. And this is happening. Buyers in their early 60s, from large

metropolitan areas, are buying second homes now for their retirement homes later. The smart retirees are keeping their assets invested and financing their home purchase in Santa Fe. They believe that inflation will follow this current difficult period. When that occurs, their investments in stocks and bonds will increase to a higher yield and their home mortgage will still be at the 4 percent range. I have heard many times that Santa Fe is “the least expensive resort in the country.” This is true to a great degree. Buying now in Santa Fe gives you a similar lifestyle as, say, Aspen without paying $1,000 per square foot for your home. Retired executives from the East coast are arriving. Recent clients retired from the federal government and sold their home in Washington, D.C., at a great

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price and bought in Santa Fe at also a great price. So, if you are 60-plus and don’t plan on working forever, grab your dream home in Santa Fe in 2012. Jim Gay was a real-estate broker for 20 years and has been a consultant to Fortune 500 companies. He is currently a broker/owner with Home Buyers Mortgage (986-9080) and can be reached at jim@jimgayhomemortgage.com. HOME JANUARY 2012

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PROFILE Gregg Antonsen

Gregg Antonsen is qualifying broker for Sotheby’s International Realty in Santa Fe. Home|Santa Fe Real Estate Guide found him at the Sotheby’s office in the historic Judge Reed Holloman house on Grant Avenue. You’ve been doing this for about five months now? I’ve been in this position for five months. What most people don’t know is that I’ve been in Santa Fe for nine years on January 3. I’m getting my feet wet. I started in Hawaii with own real-estate firm and that included some work with Sotheby’s back in 1979, 1980, 1981. Most recently, for the last eight years, I was with Christies’ Great Estates [now Christie’s International Real Estate]. I was their senior vp of business development. I met Kay Coughlin in Hawaii. She was heading the Sotheby’s West Coast division. The job description was more about management than working with properties and agents? With Christie’s I was working more on a national level. I would oversee regional vice presidents and also helped to grow that network. I would be called out on special properties, usually $10 million and above, to assist the local broker, who was a Christie’s affiliate, to bring high-end properties on to the market. But here it’s getting back to my roots. My firm in Hawaii was a boutique brokerage and what I like about Sotheby’s, and what Sotheby’s has become, is that we’re local experts in all price ranges. The beauty is they get the Sotheby’s service no matter what price range they’re at, and Sotheby’s is known historically for their high level of service and integrity and value. In this economy, Sotheby’s is representing the whole spectrum, and brokers tell me they’re working harder on each transaction than ever before. What this market has shown us is that you can’t ignore any sector of the market. In Santa Fe we have a 36 percent market share looking at all price ranges and 60 percent of the sales volume for sales of $1 million and up. I love working with all these people. There’s a reason they have the market share they do. In November 2010, this company bought Santa Fe Realty Partners, a locally grown business, and that firm’s chief, Tommy Gardner, was named designated broker at Sotheby’s, replacing Darci Burson. After that acquisition, the company had 180 brokers. How many are here now? I believe we have 115. There will be ebbs and flows, but our goal is to be the number-one firm in Santa Fe, the local experts. What differentiates us is the international reach that we have and it’s because of the name and the association with the auction house. Everyone likes to support local business; that’s a very important thing. But at the same time we’re in an 28

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ever-shrinking world, so you need that national and international reach. I think Santa Fe is very unique and is recognized nationally and internationally as a center of the arts and for the climate and the architecture. But people are drawn to brands and what we can bring to our sales associates is the brand and the business that comes with it. What’s your projection for business in 2012? My experience is not unique, but I talk with leaders in the banking industry, and I just attended an address by Lawrence Yun, the chief economist for the National Association of Realtors, and he spoke about Santa Fe. I see 2012 as being somewhat of a static year. I see the next few years as somewhat stable. Have we reached the bottom on prices? I think we have, or we’re very close to it. Sales in Santa Fe were up 2.7 percent in 2011 versus 2010. The third-quarter median price was down roughly 10.5 percent. I think when you put everything together, you see that prices are slowly stabilizing. Lawrence Yun calls this “a strange new world.” We have the lowest interest rates in 40 years but very little pickup in sales. We have relatively little new construction, but existing homes continue to lose value. These are things that

haven’t happened before. Banks have huge cash reserves but their stock prices are low. Homes are very affordable, but there’s a general lack of confidence. And, lately, just as we begin to feel a little better about our economy, we get the news from Europe. It’s very difficult to make predictions. After everything hit the fan in September 2008, it seemed that the complexity of derivatives and other financial structures actually obscured productive analysis and repair of the system. The complexity combined with the thought processes that said certain banks and institutions were too big to fail made a dangerous situation. I think the subprime crisis was the first faltering, and Canada is an interesting contrast. My understanding is that they went through this in the 1980s and quickly took control of it and learned from it. Right now you go to Montreal and Toronto and Vancouver and you see building cranes, and you’re not seeing them here. It is a strange new world, but I am the eternal optimist. We have seen a slight improvement this year over last and I think we will continue to see slight improvement in 2012, but I think it’s going to be a slow walk out of this through 2015.

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architecture Spears group awarded for ‘distinguished work’ by AIA-NM By Paul Weideman SPEARS ARCHITECTS WAS NAMED NEW MEXICO ARCHITECTURE FIRM OF THE YEAR IN SEPTEMBER BY AIA NEW MEXICO, THE STATE CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS. “This award recognizes the continuing collaboration among individuals in a firm who have produced distinguished architecture over a period of ten years, and have made significant contributions to the American Institute of Architects, the profession and their community, and have transcended their local boundaries in making these contributions,” said Jean Gibson, AIA New Mexico executive director. The firm was founded 31 years ago by Beverley Spears, FAIA. All of her employees, including architects James Horn and Kate Leriche, have been with Spears Architects for at least seven years. The firm’s projects during the past decade include numerous residences in Northern New Mexico, Open Hands, The Santa Fe New Mexican printing/circulation building, the Santa Fe Plaza bandstand, the LEED “Gold” Santa Fe Preparatory School library, the Santa Fe Community Convention Center (with Fentress Architects), and the Center at the Academy for the Love of Learning; as well as historic-preservation work at Los Luceros and the Lamy Building. Horn was project architect on the Lamy Building project, which was completed in 2005. After researching the building’s history, materials and colors, the firm oversaw repairs to deteriorating wood members and improvements to the surrounding porches, courts, and yards. The structure, built in 1878, was part of St. Michael’s College. The lower two floors, which remain today, are adobe. The third floor, with its domed cupola, mansard roof, and ornate windows, was built of wood. Local citizens contributed a heifer, two goats, two oxen, and 735 sheep to the building fund, as well as lumber for the building project. A fire destroyed the third floor on Nov. 30, 1926, and it was never rebuilt. In the 1950s, the building was remodeled “in the Territorial Revival style that had become an accepted regional style for public buildings at that time,” according to research by the Spears team. At that time, the roofline was trimmed with brick coping and an espadaña (bell tower) was added to the front (westfacing) façade. 30

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The spruced-up facade of the Lamy Building. Below, the main St. Michael’s College building, ca. 1920, photographed by T. Harmon Parkhurst, courtesy Palace of the Governors Photo Archives (NMHM/ DCA), Neg. No. 014022

It became the Lamy Building, housing state offices, after St. Michael’s High School moved to its current location on Siringo Road in 1967. The Lamy Building remains one of the largest adobe buildings in Santa Fe. “We basically rehabilitated the exterior of the building, which included repairing the 2-story wood portal on the east side, trying to save as much historic fabric as we could,” Beverley Spears said. “We did paint analysis on the exterior woodwork to look at past colors. The entire building was restuccoed. The cementitious stucco is a

warm beige/gray color responding to the old cement stucco used in the 1870s. “We also opened up some fan lights on the front, facing west, restoring that sort of centerpiece on the building. And then from old photos we reconstructed the little espadaña [only the base was extant]. The building has few decorative elements, so that one stands out.” All grounds around the building were renovated to include new drought-tolerant plantings, benches, and walkways. A more recent, and much bigger, project for Spears Architects was a new government center for Taos County. The recently completed complex on Albright Street includes a new district courthouse, the county administration building with the magistrate court, and a jail. The firm’s outlook in the new year can be read in its last Christmas card. The Spears crew, in a boat labeled “AIA New Mexico Firm of the Year,” appears threatened by a huge ship labeled “Economy.” “We’re running out of work,” Spears said. “We’re hurting, but we’re not the only ones. Just today [Dec. 16] we’re finishing up the drawings for Santo Domingo Trading Post, which will be an interesting construction project, but for architects once it’s in construction and if you have no other active projects on the boards, you don’t have very much to do. “The tribe got a million-dollar grant from the feds to rebuild the old trading post, which is about a mile north of the pueblo. There was nothing left of it besides the standing adobe walls, which are pretty sound. We are rebuilding it as it was.” ----------------------In this year’s awards by the Albuquerque AIA chapter, MICHAEL FREEMAN ARCHITECT received a 2011 Citation Award for the Santa Fe County Public Works Complex, completed in late 2008; and ARCHAEO ARCHITECTS received Unbuilt Citation Awards for El Paso Residence and House Thirty-Thirty.

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About possible additional supply options Last month the City of Santa Fe held an interactive public meeting to obtain input and prioritization from area residents concerning a multitude of possible uses of treated effluent (reclaimed wastewater) from the city’s wastewater treatment plant. The possible uses were divided into seven overall categories, which included several applications currently being practiced. The technical portion of the meeting was conducted by Claudia Borchert, the city’s water resources coordinator. She and the other members of the Sangre de Cristo Water Division staff are duly concerned about water supply. Two possible future options are direct reuse and aquifer storage. Many communities already practice indirect reuse where drinkingwater intake occurs downstream from wastewater discharge from other cities. EPA standards govern the quality of consumer supplies of drinking water. Direct reuse is the most technically demanding and it is also a highly contentious issue because of associations of reusing water that once contained sewage, as well as concerns about potential contamination by pharmaceuticals and personal-care products not regulated by the EPA. Direct potable reuse is certainly the most extreme form of reused wastewater and usually only happens in emergencies or when blended with treated water. Aquifer storage (widely known as aquifer storage and recovery, or ASR) involves discharging effluent treated to drinkingwater standards into bodies of waters where percolation into aquifers might occur, or injecting it directly into aquifers for later recovery. Although ASR has both geologic and water-chemistry limitations, this process is widely used around the country. A Rio Rancho project started with injecting potable water with the ultimate goal of injecting highly treated wastewater. You have probably heard or read that prominent oil magnates such as T. Boone Pickens are buying up water rights in anticipation of being able to sell them to municipalities concerned with drought

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and climate change. Recently we have seen cities in Texas deplete their entire water supplies through a combination of extreme and prolonged drought, as well as poor planning. Larger entities dependent on private wells here in New Mexico, including businesses, ranches and farms, are also looking ahead to solve potential supply issues by securing water rights for deeper wells. In 2009 the Office of the State Engineer gained regulatory authority to specify engineering design (to protect shallow aquifers) and to impose water-sampling requirements for “brackish water” wells, which are defined as those drilled deeper than 2,500 feet and having total dissolved solids (TDS) greater than 1,000 parts per million. The (secondary, non-enforceable) drinking water standard for TDS of public water supplies is 500 parts per million. These deeper wells were previously unregulated. The deeper drilling technology and water-treatment methodologies required are currently available, and the latter, thanks to rapid developments in seawater desalination, are bound to drop in price before this technology is widely required. But then there are the potentially high pipeline transportation costs, if water from these deeper aquifers is ultimately needed in urban centers. You can certainly expect this deeper well supply source and the associated water rights to be controversial issues. Stephen Wiman has a background in earth science (Ph.D. in geology) and is the owner of Good Water Company and a member of the Santa Fe Water Conservation Committee. He may be reached at 505-471-9036 and skwiman@ goodwatercompany.com.

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A new office for Santa Fe Properties By Paul Weideman

he latest response by Santa Fe Properties to the real-estate market downturn was to... open another office! Yes, the company — headquartered at 1000 Paseo de Peralta and with a small branch at 320 Paseo de Peralta — is now also located at 216 Washington Avenue. That is the former home of santafe.com and the “French Quarter” office of French & French Fine Properties (later Sotheby’s). In fact, Liz Cale, who manages Santa Fe Properties with company founder Wally Sargent, was in charge of the French Quarter toward the end of her 17-year employ under the French & French banner. When asked how many real-estate agents were in the building, she instantly said, “There were 42 brokers there.” We visited with Cale and Sargent on Dec. 19. There have been a lot of changes in real-estate companies in Santa Fe this year. Cale: It’s all about market share. That’s what the big corporations do. For Santa Fe Properties, I would say things are going fantastic right now. If I had to recap this year, it’s been a difficult and successful year in almost equal measure. For example, we started out with a more challenging market than anyone had anticipated, and lower sales than average, but we’re ending the year with some of the best months we’ve ever had since 2009. The big year, the top of the graph, was 2007. We’re never going to see that again. But we’re ending the year with some incredible business, both in the number of transactions and sales volume. One reason for that is that we’ve added 45 brokers this year. We had 95 at this time a year ago and we have 131 active brokers today. A lot of brokers have returned home to Santa Fe Properties. A few months ago, because of our growth, we realized we

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were running out of room and that’s why we looked at 216 Washington. The first exciting thing this year was that Wally rejoined the managment team after a 3-year sabbatical. Due to his efforts, we’ve had 45 brokers join us. He’s my secret weapon. Wally, you came out of retirement, right? Sargent: I did. Gerry [company owner Gerald Peters] called me up and asked if I’d consider coming back. I talked to my wife and she said it would be great if you want to do it. I’ve had one of the most fun years of my life, bringing in agents old and new. That’s what I focus on. Cale: And in addition to Wally, the culture we have here is just enviable. Sargent: I’m selling our culture, which is totally different from corporate culture, Brand X. That’s what we cultivated from the beginning back in 1986. We are celebrating our 25th year. It’s a family. One comment I hear from other agents is that everything is so upbeat and happy and optimistic here. Other places they have found gloom and doom, just a really clear difference in the feeling. I think it’s gutsy to make a bold step of opening another office in a market where other agencies are folding or retrenching or cutting back. We wouldn’t do it if we weren’t confident that the market is beginning to stabilize. I think we’re going to have a very, very good 2012. Cale: These are some of the best affordability conditions for purchasing property in my lifetime. Sargent: The interest rates are unbelievable. Of course, you almost don’t need a loan to be able to get it. The prices and the number and variety of homes on the market are all great if the buyer has cash.

Cale: Cash is key, and we’ve seen a tremendous increase in cash sales. We track right in with the national statistics. Nationally, cash sales are 30 to 35 percent and at Santa Fe Properties about 25 percent of our sales are cash. Sargent: We are very upbeat. I will make the prediction that a year from now Santa Fe Properties will be the volume market leader in Santa Fe. Cale: Opening the new office is just one thing. We also hired our own in-house photographer this year. In the spring we opened the Professional Development Group, a replacement of our new-agent division that we closed down in 2008. We also had Chuck McKinley, who has great experience in Santa Fe, join our management team. We took a lot of pride in the downturn market that we never laid anyone off. Housing starts are almost nonexistent in Santa Fe, and a lot of our builders are doing remodels. We have the lowest newly constructed inventory since World War II. This was shared by Lawrence Yun, chief economist with the National Association of Realtors, who spoke here on Dec. 7. Another change is that Santa Fe Properties is no longer affiliated with Christie’s International Real Estate, formerly Christie’s Great Estates. Is that right? Yes. The firm is now affiliated with Leading Real Estate Companies of the World and Luxury Portfolio, which is Leading RE’s luxury arm. We chose them because they’re one of the fastest-growing networks of — and this is key — independent brokerages, and so we feel like we have more to offer our clients and brokers. Sargent: We are not trying to be the biggest real-estate agency in town, but the best.

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Wintertime gardening activities? It’s 6 in the morning. Big, spaced-out snowflakes float to the ground as I squint through a window and boot-up my computer. Tossing another log into the woodstove, I realize that now would be a wonderful time to garden. Especially in winter, “gardening” can include research into whatever you’ll be doing to your landscape come spring, summer, or fall. Having lost so many of our agrarian roots in the last 60 years, many gardeners would now be lost without a relatively new form of research, something I like to call “laptop gardening.” Back when human communities were relatively self-sustaining, you could learn all you needed to know about landscape design, compost, plants, harvesting, and food preservation from folks around you. In the last century, many gardeners switched to seed catalogues, magazine clippings, and gardening books. Today, we’re increasingly likely to Google for answers to our gardening how-to questions. Fortunately, Google is not the only alternative to gaining access both to the knowledge of yore and to the latest information for tomorrow’s ecological garden. There still are multiple opportunities to connect with folks from your local area who are willing to share their life’s work. Here in Santa Fe, we are blessed with a plethora of well-organized workshops, panel discussions, lecture presentations, and seminars where you can expect to absorb a little bit more green into your thumbs. Master Gardeners, the Native Plants Society of New Mexico, the Santa Fe Botanical Garden, various watershed and wildlife groups, a number of concerned homeowner associations, and a significant slew of educational institutions make it hard to go much more than a month without a chance to learn something from a real, live garden guru. For years, Santa Fe Greenhouses has provided our community with great talks

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during their winter seminar series. David and Ava Salman are back at it again this year at their high-country-famous plant nursery at 2094 Rufina Street. Every Saturday in January and February this year at the nursery, you’ll be able to catch eight experts expounding on topics ranging from water-wise landscapes and cisterns to fruit trees, annual vegetables, and culinary herbs. My Feb. 4 presentation, like all of the workshops in the 2012 series, will be held on a Saturday at 2 p.m. My focus will be on practical solutions to our water woes, such as how to store runoff in the soil, and about pumice wicks and cisterns. We’ll also touch on greywater and blackwater recycling. There will be ample time for questions and a chance to check out my book, Harvest the Rain. Other authors in the series are Colorado-based Tammi Hartung who wrote Homegrown Herbs and Howard Garrett who, by the sound of his book’s title — Texas Organic Gardening — will be moseying over from the Lone Star State. Don’t miss talks by regional-plant experts David Salman, Katherine O’Brien, Jeff Clark, and Greg Tickle. In a way, you need community to grow a garden. Sometimes all it takes is knowing where to end your the frenetic search for information. Nate Downey is president of Santa Fe Permaculture (505-424-4444) and the author of Harvest the Rain: How to Enrich Your Life by Seeing Every Storm as a Resource (Sunstone Press, 2011).

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Botanical Garden prepares to flourish Santa Fe has a very rich history. Just ask the plants. One example is the Santa Fe Botanical Garden (SFBG), where ground is being tilled to prepare for the organization’s newest garden. It will offer visitors unique insights into the region’s floral past, present and future. SFBG is leasing a 13-acre lot on Museum Hill that will house four diverse gardens: The Orchard Gardens, The Naturalistic Gardens, The Courtyard Gardens, and the Arroyo Trails. Each garden is interconnected, yet features a distinct multi-sensory journey into Northern New Mexico’s plant world. Executive Director Linda Milbourn says the staff and volunteers are euphoric. “We see the gardens as an organic opportunity to preserve an important history of Santa Fe botanicals while connecting with local artists and exhibitions,” she said. The design and construction process will take place in several phases into 2013. Ground was recently broken, on Nov. 4, 2011, to plant an orphaned bridge rescued from Las Vegas, New Mexico. The Kearny

Gap Bridge, a once-abandoned structure, was purchased by the SFBG from private owners. It is nearly 100 years old and spans 62 feet long by 16 feet wide. The bridge will connect the area between the Arroyo de los Piños to the rest of the gardens and will be positioned in such a way that passersby can catch a glimpse of the Jemez Mountain range. To access the gardens, visitors will walk through a bountifully lined path of heirloom fruit trees, including apple, apricot, peach, pear and plum. The tree cultivars were introduced to Santa Fe by original settlers to the area and tell the history of Santa Fe’s prolific yet diverse gardens. The Orchard Garden will begin planting in the spring of 2012. Follow arbors laden heavy in fragrant wisteria and you’ll come to the Courtyard Gardens, where there are plenty of places to admire the view. The Heirloom Courtyard will feature plants such as hollyhocks and lilac that are evocative of earlier days. The Fiesta Courtyard will host concerts and events. You’ll find folkloric murals and painted walls by

santero Ramón José Lopez in the “Jewel box,” while the Alexander Girard garden will teem with lush succulents, including sedums and agave, all complimentary of Girard’s textile genius. Cross the bridge and experience the Naturalistic Garden on the far side of the arroyo. Sweeping grasses and natural, native plants dot the landscape that includes an ethnobotanical garden. Tom Joyce will create an artwork that will emerge from the earth, reflecting the soul of the garden. Walk down to the Arroyo Trails and experience a diversity in wildlife and native plants such as chamisa and sages. Follow the bike and walking trails, and be sure to bring your dog, as he or she is welcome. Large, organic boulders will provide seating for nature gazing and meditation. The trails are projected to be open by 2012. If you fall in love with the flowers the Botanical Garden is planting, you will have the opportunity to purchase them in May 2012, when organizers offer a sample plant sale. Private

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walking tours of the site are available by appointment. For memberships, donations, or more information, visit www.santafebotanicalgarden.org, or call 471-9103. Carole Langrall has worked in the flower industry for more than 22 years and recently moved her award-winning floral design studio to New Mexico. She often lectures on the importance of buying locally grown flowers and is a consultant for beautification projects with local communities, encouraging the use of native flowers and plants. Find her at agardenofearthlydelights.net.

Building permits Building permits issued by the CITY OF SANTA FE during the month of November included the following:

Denise Gruy, 826-B Canyon Rd. $40,000.

Fred Wesley, 3332 Monte Sereno Dr. $600,000. Centex Construction, 5916 Terra de Coral St. $163,389. Maurice Montoya, 2815 Calle Calmo. $385,000.

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

North Denver Industrial, 107 Carson Valley Way. $60,000. — 109 Carson Valley Way.

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Architect focuses on Ohkay Owingeh homes By Paul Weideman

project involving the rehabilitation of homes at Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo has won the designing architect two awards. Atkin Olshin Schade, a firm with offices in Santa Fe and Philadelphia, recently won an Honor Award from American Institute of Architects Santa Fe and earlier claimed a Merit Award from AIA Philadelphia. The architects submitted the plan segment of the Owe’neh Bupingeh Preservation Plan and Rehabilitation Project to AIA Santa Fe. A member of the awards jury said the AIA is typically “skeptical and hesitant to give a design award to an un-built project. Our goal as architects is ultimately to make actual buildings, not necessarily pretty drawings and models. As we all are aware, it is extremely difficult to produce a real building, and a bit of a miracle to produce a beautiful one. A lot can happen between the drawing and the brick.” The Owe’neh Bupingeh plan, he added, “is not, however, in any way a hypothetical exercise. The unusually high quality of the extraordinarily thorough design process, 36

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and the clarity and convincing rationality of the results of this process make this readily apparent. This beautifully explained process and comprehensive plan are a model of how such restoration should be done. “The brilliance of this plan is that it preserves a national historic treasure, not by freezing it in time, but by encouraging it to thrive as a natural evolving community.” The project is now in the construction phase at Ohkay Owingeh (formerly known as San Juan Pueblo), which was established on the Rio Grande over 600 years ago. “The first phase was 20 homes and I think 17 are done and now we’re finishing up documents for another 10, said Jamie Blosser, director of the Santa Fe office of Atkin Olshin Schade. Her involvement at Ohkay Owingeh goes back to the early 2000s, when she worked at the pueblo’s housing authority on an Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellowship. “For the Owe’neh Bupingeh Preservation Plan and Rehabilitation Project, we’re not doing reconstruction, but rehabilitation, and there will be some infill in the future,

we hope,” said Blosser, who also is the founder and leader of the Sustainable Native Communities Collaborative. “Some of the homes have been occupied and some haven’t. Basically what happened is when HUD housing began to be built in the pueblos, the housing money was going to single-family detached homes, so all of a sudden there was no investment in pueblo cores, the historic plaza centers, so a lot of them began to deteriorate.” The Ow’neh Bupingeh plan provides for quality housing within restored and new buildings, while returning the area to its traditional form. “The process of doing this has been all about community engagement. There’s a cultural advisory team that has been involved since the beginning in terms of defining the tribe’s preservation standards, and we also worked closely with the New Mexico Historic Preservation Division.” The project began five years ago with a small grant from HPD to train young people at the pueblo to survey all the buildings using GPS equipment. Blosser is enthused about the number of pueblo people now working on the building

projects. Training in adobe maintenance is part of the program — similar to the modus operandi of the Santa Febased nonprofit Cornerstones Community Partnerships, which engages in restoration work on historic buildings while training crews to take its place. “We had sustainability guidelines and one was that, because we’re going back to traditional building materials — adobe and mud plaster instead of cement stucco — we also implemented homeowner training,” Blosser said. “The contractor with this first phase brought on Pat Taylor, an adobe restoration expert who contributed to the Cornerstones manual [Adobe Conservation: A Preservation Handbook]. He has conducted workshops and it’s been such a success. Almost half the construction crew is from Ohkay Owingeh. It will take at least another five years to complete the project. Blosser said there used to be nearly a hundred adobe homes; about 60 of those need reconstruction and the current budget will only pay for 30.

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Let’s have a nice new year The holiday season in Santa Fe is the best time: the snow-covered streets, the smell of piñon wood burning in the fireplace, the cold mountain air. With the holidays come good feelings toward humanity and hope for world peace. And then, before you know it, it’s January and it’s freezing outside, the cold wind keeps blowing, the roads are slick and icy, and that warm feeling of comfort and solidarity slips. And the most notable change of all is what happened to all those nice people? During the holidays, they were everywhere. People were greeting friends and strangers alike with the warmest of salutations and everybody was nice, really nice. Even Scrooge was wishing everyone well and merrily going about his way. So what changes in January? We start thinking about elections, taxes, what we aren’t doing that we should be doing, and all those yucky kinds of things. So why not make this year different, why

not make it a nice year? For those who make New Year’s resolutions and for those thinking about making one, here’s an idea for how we can all start the year off right. Resolve to be nice. That’s it. Just be nice. If you have already made your New Year’s resolution you can simply take what you have and attach the words “and be nice” to the end of it. For instance, I will quit smoking and be nice. I will lose 15 pounds and be nice; I will read more books and be nice. See how easy it is? It seems that our generation has grown up believing the unfortunate myth that “nice guys always finish last.” We have heard it said by our grandparents, our parents, and maybe you’ve even caught yourself saying it. So it’s no wonder we don’t make resolutions about being nice. Unfortunately this notion has crept deep into our culture by way of the subconscious mind. That’s why Clint Eastwood doesn’t play nice guys. So before the next generation grows up

believing in such fairy tales we think its time to debunk this untruth and replace it with a more positive message. No matter what area of life we’re talking about, it all gets better by adding niceness on top. How do we achieve all our personal goals? Simply identify what your goal is, focus on it daily, and be nice. All you need to do to make the world a better place is build a great family and be nice. It’s really kind of simple if you think about it. To make a difference in the world today, all you need to do is give, care, share, and be nice. Who knows, maybe in a generation or two we will hear the young folks say something like, “Only the nice come out on top.” The heart is what’s at the heart of the holidays. The heart opens our senses to appreciate everything from the cold air, to the snow-covered streets and most importantly, to appreciate each other, so let’s keep it open year round. On behalf of the Carson family, we wish all our

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Santa Fe friends and families a healthy, prosperous and nicer New Year. Be marvelous, be brilliant, be inspired, and be nice. Roger Carson and Melissa Pippin Carson are Realtors Carson & Carson at Keller Williams. Call them at 505-699-3112 or email them at twicethesellingpower@gmail.com.

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Bottom-line strategies Like people, small businesses are experimenting more and more with social networking online. Their presence on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn is beginning to change the small-business landscape as more and more customers embrace social media sites as a normal part of their lives and consumer activity. Today, people talk about everything on Twitter and Facebook, including what products and services are important to them. Small businesses are discovering that business as usual is not a path to more new business. Some of the latest stats discovered with a Google search reveal over 80 percent of Americans use a social network — including over 800 million Facebook users. Experian reports that nearly 25 percent of time online is spent social networking. Social media consumers influence others with their conversations, opinions, comments and ideas about everything in the marketplace, including 38

Santa Fe. Social networking is good for business, not just relationships. Recent reports reveal that the majority of Facebook and Twitter users are more likely to buy products or use the services of the people and small business they LIKE or FOLLOW online. Here are some tips on how to take your small business to the next level. With limited resources, it is important to remember your business does not need to be everywhere. Pick one of the top three sites — Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn — that is best for your audience and focus on doing it well rather than getting overwhelmed by more than one network. Next, show them you are a real person by posting news, information and updates about what you are passionate about. If your business is focused on a niche market, hire a photographer to create a professional image for you or engage a local graphic designer to transform your Twitter profile page.

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To gain a competitive edge in your market, begin to provide information that will focus on solving your customers’ common problems or concerns. For example, if you are a veterinarian in Santa Fe, why not provide tips on preventing dog and cat injuries? If you are a plumber, why not talk about trade secrets for stopping a running toilet. If you are a bookkeeper, try blogging about how you are passionate about numbers and detail. This kind of information will be your competitive advantage by providing value to your customers and future prospects. Take the time to interact with your clients, prospects and followers online. Begin conversations to engage those you find interesting. Read what your followers are saying about you and your business. Focus on the pulse in your market by looking at trending topics to be more informed. After all, people do business with people they know and trust. In 2012, why not make a resolution to boost your

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bottom line by social networking? Follow me and I will follow your business. See you next online. Emily Medvec is an associate broker with Santa Fe Properties on a team with Ulla Allyn. Emily’s passion is how social networking online changes how we communicate and make decisions in real estate and every other marketplace. Follow her at www.twitter.com/ emilymedvec or call her at 505-660-4541.

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Rain chains an attractive option Though few would argue that downspouts effectively direct water from the gutter to the collecting tank, we would probably also agree that they do not add aesthetic appeal to the house. Fortunately, for people who wish to transcend function for form, there is another option. Rain chains offer a highly attractive and unique alternative to traditional downspouts. They are hung from the corners of your roof or canale to guide the flow of water into large barrels to catch the water from the roof for household purposes and gardening. They have been used for hundreds of years in Japan (where they’re called kusari doi) and are a perfect expression of the Japanese knack for combining aesthetics and practicality. The principle is simple: rain chains do exactly what downspouts do, but they do it in a way that brings visual pleasure and delight. Rain swirls and flows down, creating a mesmerizing sense of motion and tranquility right outside your window. And they are beautiful on dry days too, especially the copper chains that develop a rich blue-green patina over time. Rain chains make an attractive and functional addition to any rainwatercapture system, regardless if it is above or below ground. Although downspouts allow far more capture, chains are still more efficient than just letting rain fall from canales and drop to the ground. Falling water, even without wind, will splash onto walls and the surrounding areas and be lost. Water follows the path of least resistance and a rain chain directs the water to where you want t o capture or store it. Rain chains may not be quite as efficient as gutters, especially in areas prone to heavy downpours, but they do offer a great alternative in areas where aesthetics are crucial. At my home, I have chains installed on the front of the house and downspouts on the back. Both direct rain to an underground storage tank. In the summer, the water winding its way down the chain

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adds a calming visual effect right out my office window, while in the winter the ice formations are truly unique. Some folks take their chains down in the winter, but I leave mine up to allow these beautiful ice sculptures to form as the snow melts. A variety of chains are available and the Japanese often put a ceramic or stoneware pot beneath the chain, adding to the beauty of the display. Rain chains can also be dropped into traditional rain barrels or tied into underground pipes that are part of rainwater-catchment systems. They are easy to install and can be a great addition to a rainwater harvesting system, passive or active. The award-winning Emerald Home offers a beautiful local example of rain chains. The canales off the front of the house lead to an underground passive irrigation system, while the chains on the side and the back of the house lead to an active rainwater harvesting system. The chains have been left up since the house opened in 2009 and offer visual appeal in summer and winter. The Emerald Home is now the Unicopia Center, with ongoing tours, workshops and conferences on sustainability issues. Tours can be arranged through faren@unicopia.org. Doug Pushard, the founder of the website www.HarvestH2o.com, has designed and installed residential rainwater systems for 12 years. A member of Santa Fe Water Conservation Committee and a board member of the American Rainwater Catchment Systems Association, he can be reached at Doug@HarvestH2o.com.

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Two award-winners from Autotroph By Paul Weideman

utotroph Design’s Alexander Dzurec, Jayita Sahni, and José La Cruz-Crawford made the trip to the podium twice during the recent awards dinner presented by AIA Santa Fe. The architects accepted Citation Awards for Warehouse 21, Santa Fe’s teen center, and for the Chuska Apartments in Gallup. The Chuska Apartments, also completed in 2008, is an affordable, 30-unit affordable project in Gallup. It was constructed to offer 10 transitional-housing units for homeless families and 20 units for families earning 60 percent less than the area’s median income. “Working with the Supportive Housing Coalition of New Mexico, we developed the designs for a community,” says a project statement from Autotroph. “Similar to a cohousing project, we were asked to think of the relationships of all the residents and how they could share resources and social networks while maintaining their independence and privacy. “We designed the units to be uniquely recognizable within a group of similarly styled homes. Similar to what is done in other cohousing projects, we organized the units around shared outdoor spaces.” The homes are both efficient and interesting, and the layout of the 30 units on the city landscape is pleasingly symmetrical.

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The Chuska Apartments in Gallup. Left, a child’s bedroom at Chuska

“The design typology borrows from the local vernacular of stucco walls and pitched roofs. The units are designed to be energy-efficient with an emphasis on daylighting and passive-solar heating.” Each unit has offset pitched roofs, operable clerestory windows for solar gain and ventilation. The south wall 40

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incorporates trombe walls, specially engineered wall sections that maximize wintertime heat gain. In each section is a wall of concrete masonry units and an exterior glazing of translucent Kalwall panels, with an air space in between. The concrete-mass walls absorb, and slowly release, heat to the interior.

Art outside and in at Warehouse 21

There are also solar water heaters that supply domestic hot water and warm the homes via hydronic baseboard heaters. Autotroph designed a variety of spaces, from private patios for each master bedroom to public gardens and gathering areas. The new building for 15-year-old Warehouse 21 was completed in the summer of 2008. It was designed to be simple and utilitarian, yet provide a sense of community for the teen culture of Santa Fe. It was designed to reflect the utilitarian purpose of the facility and its setting in the Santa Fe Railyard — where the historic warehouse aesthetic has actually been codified under the city’s architectural controls. And it was designed as a flexible warehouse building to accommodate multiple functions. Warehouse 21 programs include graphic design and computer animation, theater productions, audio

recording, hip-hop classes, fashion design, concerts, and fine arts. W21’s artmaking prerogatives show inside and out. In fact, the blank stucco walls on the building’s exterior were designed to be canvases. “I love the way it has already become touched, painted, and transformed by the artists,” said one juror in the AIA competition. Another jury comment was, “While obviously constrained by a very limited budget, the limited design elements available to the architect have been manipulated with skill and freshness. There is an admirable restraint in the architecture in recognition of the inevitable transformations the building will and should undergo.” Skylights with “sunbender” devices, and well-placed windows, will provide abundant daylight to the interior while solar collectors heat domestic water, all designed to achieve significant energy savings for the operators of W21.

Autotroph is now working on the preliminary design for a teen center in Los Alamos. It woud be about 18,000 square feet, a little bit larger than Warehouse 21. “The client is Los Alamos County,” said Dzurec, president and managing principal of Autotroph Design. “It is a fiscally conservative town and sort of unfortunately for us the way things work there is that you do a preliminary phase — you do a design and put an estimate on it — and you take it to the council for approval and then they do a new RFP for the architect to do the detail design work after that. So we’re not guaranteed with continuing on, nor that the project will be funded, although it does have a lot of support in the community.” In other jobs, two Autotroph-designed houses are almost complete. “One is a full house and one is an art studio addition,” Dzurec said. “They’re both pretty interesting: contemporary but fitting to the Southwest.” HOME JANUARY 2012

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