Historic Santa Fe Foundation is ramping up the efforts in publishing the fifth edition of its classic publication Old Santa Fe Today. The essays by architect John Gaw Meem’s daughter and HSFF member Nancy Wirth, writer Paul Weideman, HSFF’s staff Pete Warzel and Mara Saxer, as wll as the manuscript with 96 Register Property citations written by Dr. Audra Bellmore of University of New Mexico, Albuquerque is currently being copyedited with the Museum of New Mexico Press. The Publication Subcommittee has approved MNMP’s initial concept designs by David Skolkin; mapmaker Deborah Reade has submitted the initial map pieces; staff are meeting with a potential app designer for touring in August 2021; and finally, the project manager Melanie McWhorter is testing the touring routes for all the neighborhoods along with help from Board Director Ken Stilwell.

This piece offers a few of Melanie’s photographs from the testing of the tour routes in the neighborhoods of Barrio de Analco, Barrio de Guadalupe, Don Gaspar/Old Santa Fe Trail, Rosario/Northwest, and Upper Canyon Road. Melanie will be touring Canyon Road/Camino del Monte Sol and the Plaza/Downtown sections in the next week. The photographs in the book are historic images from local sources and contemporary images by Simone Frances shot in 2020.

We will send our regular weekly emails containing information about the publication date and pre-sell online as soon as we have more details. In the meantime, you can email melanie@historicsantafe.org to be on the notification list for announcements.

Finally, we are delighted to say that the funding for the book is complete, but we are still taking funding for the app on the Old Santa Fe Today website. Please consider a donation to the book or to Historic Santa Fe Foundation on the Join & Give page for donations or memberships, and the Old Santa Fe Today page for the application. Read more about Old Santa Fe Today, fifth edition.

(Note that the properties are listed below by their Register names. Some are private residences and others are public spaces. Please view the private residences from street view.)