Join HSFF Stewards Membership and visit historic homes and venues
Annual membership in the Historic Santa Fe Foundation's Stewards allows the opportunity to attend four home tours and lectures at different homes around the Santa Fe area. Each event has a featured speaker who is knowledgeable about many details of the property, including its past owners, architecture, and location.
For more information or to join the Stewards, click the link below or contact HSFF's Deputy Director Melanie McWhorter at melanie@historicsantafe.org.
Senator Peter Wirth speaking at Bishop Jones House, may 2022
Donaciano vigil house door, August 2022
Mark H. Cross speaking at the Betty stewart house, July 2022
Screen door at Hollenback House looking out towards the catering tables
Tour of HSFF’s Compound for the El Zaguan Master Plan/Capital Campaign
Bishops Lodge, Stewards tour, November 2021
Lamy Chapel after renovations, Nov. 2021 Stewards tour of Bishops Lodge
Larry Good speaks in the orchard behind El Zaguan
Donna Berg and Nancy Meem wirth at the Amelia hollenback house
June 2017 Stewards Event on Garcia Street
Docent tour at La Fonda, November 2018
Front entrance of Gustave Baumann House for late afternoon Stewards event, APril 2016
Mac Watson welcoming Stewards to Gustauve Baumann House, April 2016
VIGIL HOuse courtyard, August 2022
Betty stewart house, July 2022
stewards gather at the Dorothy mckibbin house, June 2022
Bishop Jones House, May 2022 Tour
Victor Goler speak about San Antonito conservation, cordova, NM, Dec. 2021
David Rasch speaking at the Carlos Vierra House, July 2018
Interior of Lamy Chapel, Bishops Lodge, Stewards tour, November 2021
Stewards enjoying the courtyard at the Vigil House, July 2016
Jeni with Adobo Catering at Vigil House Stewards event, July 2016
Gustauve Baumann sunroom, Stewards Event, April 2016
The Castle at Academy for the Love of Learning and Seton Village, September 2018
Maurice Dixon tinwork in Roque Lobato (now Lobato-Morley House) Library for Winter Stewards Event, December 2015
Michael Taylor speaking about El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, Stewards Event, The Vigil House, July 2016
Stewards Membership provides the opportunity to enjoy four exclusive events in historic settings, usually homes, every year. Members enjoy beverages, private tours and presentations by distinguished historians. Annual membership (Membership includes admission for two people or a couple) starts at $850 with additional support levels available. Stewards Individual Membership (admission for one person) available for $425.
Upcoming locations and speakers
UPCOMING DATES AND LOCATIONS ANNOUNCED IN SPRING OR SUMMER 2023.
Past locations and speakers
2023
June 2023 (bonus event) - Visit for completed conservation of San José de Gracia Church interior in Las Trampas with santero Victor Goler
June 2023 - J.B. Jackson House in La Cienega with Billy Schenck
July 2023 - Los Pinos Guest Ranch in the Pecos with Mac Watson
August 2023 Fuller Lodge and J. Robert Oppenheimer House in Los Alamos with John Ruminer
August 2023 Pond-Kelly House with Robynne Mellor
2022
March 2022 (bonus event) - Second visit for completed conservation of Cordova’s San Antonio Church with santero Victor Goler
May 2022 - Bishop Jones House
June 2022 - Dorothy McKibbin House, speaker Mary Brennan
July 2022 - A Betty Stewart House on Garcia Street with speaker Mark Cross, author of A Tale of Santa Fe: Betty Stewart and the City Different
August 2022 - Donaciano Vigil House, speaker owner Christopher Watson and Maurilio E. Vigil and Helene Boudreau, authors of Donaciano Vigil: The Life of a Nuevomexicano Soldier, Statesman, and Territorial Governor
November 2022 (bonus event) - Visit to Las Trampas church for altar screen renovation
2021
December 2021 - First visit for ongoing conservation of Cordova’s San Antonio Church with santero Victor Goler
November 2021 - Bishop’s Lodge and Lamy Chapel with speaker Beverley Spears
September 19, 2021 - Ameila Hollenback House, with tour by owners and HSFF Board and architect Larry Good
August 15, 2021 - HSFF’s El Zaguán for the El Zaguán Master Plan/Capital Campaign, speakers Historic Santa Fe Foundation’s Executive Director Pete Warzel, Campaign Chair Larry Good and El Zaguán Master Planning selected architect Barbara Felix about the changes, with their tour preceded by a brief history by author, scholar, and HSFF Board Director Nancy Owen Lewis.
2020
All events canceled due to COVID limitations
2019
• December 8, 2019 Francesca Hinojos House, speaker John Wolf
• October 26, 2019 Lois Field House/Las Milpas, speaker Jim Parks
• Meem Architect’s Office and Meem-Wirth Home, speaker Beverley Spears, August 25, 2019
• Los Luceros Historic Site, Alcalde — May 26, 2019 Marie Markesteyn speaker and docents for Los Amigos (Los Luceros group)
2018
• La Fonda on the Plaza – November 2018, Docents tour of La Fonda, Audra Bellmore speakers
• Seton Village and Academy for the Love of Learning
• September 2018, David L. Witt speaker, Beverley Spears, speaker
• Carlos Vierra House – June 2018, David Rasch speaker
• Plaza Balentine on Acequia Madre (former Kate Chapman Compound) – May 2018, Margretta’s granddaughter speaker
2017
• J.B. Jackson House in La Cienega – April 2017, Chris Wilson speaker
• Faustina Garcia House on Garcia Street – June 2017, Pete Warzel and Jane Bagwell, speakers
• Former Catron Compound on Canyon Road – November 2017, Jerry West speaker
• La Huerta in Tesuque – September 2017, Tim Maxwell speaker
2016
• Gustave Baumann House – April 2016, Nancy Wirth speaker and silent film on Santa Fe
• Donaciano Vigil House – July 2016, Michael Romero Taylor of NPS Trails System, spearker
• Las Acequias in Nambe – September 2016, Chris Wilson speaker
• Chavez-Kelly House – November 2016, Bud Kelly and Jim Baker speakers
2015
• Henderson House – spring 2015, Karl Horn, speaker
• El Zaguán and back houses – summer, Nancy Owen Lewis, speaker
• Francis E. Wilson House – August 2015
• Roque Lobato House (renamed Lobato - Morley House, Sept. 2020) – December 2015, Karl Horn speaker