William Penhallow Henderson and his wife Alice Corbin Henderson were founders and principal members of the local art community. Their home, built from 1917 through 1928 in the Spanish Pueblo Revival Style, served as a model for other homes built by members of Santa Fe’s growing art colony. Gradually, other artists and writers settled around the Hendersons’ home on Camino del Monte Sol (Road of the Sun Mountain), becoming a prominent enclave for the Santa Fe art colony. In addition to his accomplishments as a painter, Henderson was a lay architect whose commissions included building the White sisters’ compound El Delirio (now the School for Advanced Research) on Garcia Street; the Museum of Navajo Ceremonial Art (now the Wheelwright Museum), in the form of a Navajo hogan; the Santa Fe Railroad ticket office on the Santa Fe Plaza; the Roque Lobato House on Bishops Lodge Road; the Edwin Brooks House on Canyon Road; the Fremont Ellis House, also on Canyon Road; and the Albert Schmidt Residence in Tesuque.
From Old Santa Fe Today, 5th edition by Audra Bellmore with photographs by Simone Frances.