Architecture Wednesday: Pueblo-style from 1700s

This three-hundred-plus year-old house was purchased by photographer Dani Brubaker in 2022 from longtime resident Yolanda Ortiz y Pino who had lived in the home for 63 years. Dani collaborated with artist Patricia Larsen to maintain the authentic old-world charm of the home though it was completely updated with new roof, new stucco, new electrical, radiant heating, and new plumbing. 

The ageless property lies along Galisteo Creek and was partially built in the 1700s in the traditional pueblo style with adobe and rock walls, and viga ceilings. The wabi-sabi—a world view centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection—remodel has a minimalist vibe that incorporates nature and light, typical of the work by designer Larsen who worked on the current iteration of this home.

You enter the home under an expansive portal that faces the courtyard and offers evening respite from the sun. The resulting split floor plan includes 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, a kitchenette between the guest rooms, versatile spaces that can be used for a home office or gym, a 2-car garage, and a grand room superb for entertaining. If you are looking for a completely Zen experience the primary bedroom and bathroom are the perfect spot.

Some spectacular details: the door to the primary suite is painted with designs by the iconic Fremont Ellis, a founding member of Los Cinco Pintores, a Santa Fe modernist art society formed in the 1920s; a small 3 room building that sits on the edge of the courtyard, is said to be the oldest home in Galisteo, has electric and 2 fireplaces and could be converted to host guests if desired. 

The home is for sale for $1.9M and includes the .66 acres that the home and well sit on, along with a combined 3.46 acre set of parcels that connects the home to the Galisteo Creek and another .85-acre parcel that runs along Hwy 41 off of the front of the home that is commercially viable. 

It just seems calm and peaceful and serene and historic, aged and ageless, and very ‘of the Earth’ to me. I like so many different home styles but this one, because of the age and the design inside, calls to me … but how nice if it called to me with a purchase offer far, far lower?

Or, you know, Christmas is coming and if y’all chipped in … ?

Dwell

Architecture Wednesday: Classic Pueblo-Style Home in Santa Fe

Oh yes. I could live in this house and I could live in this town.

This 3,011-square-foot, three-bedroom, three bathroom beauty is located in Santa Fe’s historic Eastside neighborhood and evokes the traditional Pueblo-style architecture—sometimes called Pueblo Revival—of the American Southwest, which takes direct inspiration from Native American pueblo architecture and are often constructed from adobe and feature flat roofs and stuccoed walls.

Brick floors and traditional vigas—large, rough-hewn wooden ceiling beams—are found throughout the home and the living room features one of the home’s five kiva fireplaces with a long, connected bench, known as a banco.

In the dining room French doors on either side offer direct access to the outdoors, as well as allowing a cool evening breeze to enter the home, and there’s another kiva fireplace that partially encloses the kitchen at the far end of the space. The updated kitchen features Wolf and Sub-Zero appliances and white-painted cabinets and open shelves with zigzag details match the bright, plastered walls.

A peaceful library with another cozy fireplace and a wall of built-ins and French doors screams a glass of Pinot and a good book on a WINTER’S NIGHT.

The principal bedroom has its own fireplace, as well as French doors on both sides of the room, as well as an en suite bathroom. There are two other bedrooms, and two bathrooms, each with beautiful tile-work and colorful sinks..

At the rear of the home is a large courtyard with a sheltered patio and yet another outdoor fireplace, perhaps for living outside as weather permits.

As I said, I live for the beams and the brick floors and the colorful tile and that outdoor space and all those cozy nooks and fireplaces.

Dwell