Historic Santa Fe Foundation's mission is to preserve, protect and promote the historic properties and diverse cultural heritage of the Santa Fe area, and to educate the public about Santa Fe's history and the importance of preservation.

Staff, Board of Directors, and Volunteers

Staff

Melanie McWhorter, Executive Director
melanie@historicsantafe.org

Jacob Sisneros, Preservation Projects and Programs Manager
jacob@historicsantafe.org

Anne Kelly, Gallery & Shop Manager
anne@historicsantafe.org

Hanna Churchwell, Education Programs and Publications Manager
hanna@historicsantafe.org

Giulia Caporuscio, Development Associate and Research Historian
giulia@historicsantafe.org

Board of Directors

Executive Committee

Larry Good, Board Chair
Larry Good is a lifelong Dallas resident with a passion for the city. After graduating Summa Cum Laude from The University of Texas in December of 1972, he returned to marry his high school sweetheart Barbara, build a career and raise his family in the city he loves. Among his greatest pleasures is seeing his three adult children thriving in careers related to architecture and watching the design firm he founded, GFF, have continued success in the years following his retirement.

Larry enjoyed civic and industry activities which followed the same orientation toward planning and urban design in Dallas as did his life within GFF, with a particular focus on restoring the vibrancy of Downtown Dallas and its surrounding districts. He served as long-time board member and Chairman of Downtown Dallas, Inc., President of the Greater Dallas Planning Council, Chairman of the Dallas Urban Design Advisory Committee and sat on the Management Team for Parks for Downtown Dallas. He served on the Board of Directors of The Dallas Plan, Uptown Dallas, The McKinney Avenue Trolley, The Real Estate Council, Urban Land Institute, Episcopal School of Dallas and now Preservation Park Cities.

Larry served as President of AIA/Dallas in 1986 and served on the National Board of Directors for AIA from 1990 to 1994. He was elevated to the AIA College of Fellows in 1989 at the age of 38. He was the recipient of the 2008 Kessler Award, the highest honor given by the Greater Dallas Planning Council and the 2011 Chairman’s Award from Downtown Dallas, Inc. Larry has received four lifetime achievement awards, from the North Texas Commercial Association of Realtors (NTCAR), CoreNet Global, Dallas Business Journal and the Dallas Chapter of AIA.

In retirement, Larry spends half the year at the home he designed for his family in Santa Fe, NM, where he serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Historic Santa Fe Foundation, and as a Board Director for The Santa Fe Botanical Garden. Larry led HSFF through the master plan process for renovations to their historic headquarters El Zaguan and chaired the capital campaign to fund the project. In 2020, he designed and authored a book for Preservation Park Cities titled A House for Texas, which ultimately helped save Dallas’s treasured Elbert Williams Residence from impending demolition. His most recent book, The Houses of the Park Cities, designed to inspire preservation of that community’s rich architectural legacy, was published in April, 2024.

Greg Walke, Vice Chair
Greg Walke is a Santa Fe architect and a former board chairman and current member of the property committee of The Historic Santa Fe Foundation. His professional interests and volunteer activities have involved him in Santa Fe’s unique historic preservation, community planning, affordable housing, and art worlds. He has led tours for hundreds of Santa Fe visitors, including walking tours of downtown for the Museum of New Mexico, Canyon Road for the National Trust, children’s tours for the Foundation, and various historic home tours.

Harlan Flint, Treasurer
Harlan Flint is a partner in LongView Asset Management, LLC, a registered investment advisor in Santa Fe and leader in socially responsible investing. In 2018, together with his business partner, David Cantor, Harlan purchased Hovey House from the Historic Santa Fe Foundation and granted a preservation easement to the foundation to protect the building in perpetuity. They have overseen a year-long project to restore and upgrade Hovey House, which houses LongView’s new offices.

A native Santa Fean, Harlan also lived in Anchorage and San Francisco before graduating from Cornell University, where he studied architecture and history. Earlier in his career, Harlan worked for 25 years in New York, London, Hong Kong and Stockholm, pioneering the development of electronic trading systems in financial markets. He returned to New Mexico in 2007 with his wife, Nicole Rassmuson, and their children, Selma and Jasper. Harlan is a former board member of Santa Fe Conservation Trust and continues to serve on its Finance Committee.

Nicholas Wirth, Member at Large
Nicholas Wirth is a retired educator who spent the last two and a half decades teaching in the Santa Fe Public Schools, Desert Academy and Santa Fe Prep. His focus was in American and Middle Eastern history. He holds degrees from Colorado College, the College of Santa Fe, and is currently working on a degree through the Gilder Lehrman Institute. Throughout his tenure as a teacher, he collaborated with a number of national and local nonprofit organizations. Nicholas lives in a Meem house, is passionate about New Mexico history and historic preservation. He has three wonderful children.

Board Directors

Jim Baker, Board Director
Jim Baker was born in Rogersville which is a small town in the northeast corner of Tennessee. It is the second oldest town in Tennessee and is where Davey Crockett’s parents are buried. The Baker side of his family is listed with a state historic register as a “First Family of Tennessee” which is a recognition given to families who can document that they are descended from someone who lived in Tennessee prior to it becoming a state in 1776.

At some point in the 40’s, his Father got a job working construction in Oak Ridge, TN which was part of the Manhattan Project and still a government town when they moved there in 1954. Jim went from a school where 1st grade through the 12th grade was in the same building to what was probably one of the best school systems in the country, and where the students were from families that had moved there from all over the U.S. Prior to moving to Oak Ridge, he had never heard a northern accent and had never been out of the state of Tennessee.

He went to undergraduate and graduate school at the University of Tennessee and since graduating has been involved in a variety of positions with companies both in the U.S. and internationally for the past 55 years. Jim has been a co-managing partner of a private equity firm based in Chattanooga, Tennessee for the past 32 years. He has two adult sons who live in Chattanooga. His older son has a degree in chemical engineering and an MBA and his younger has an MD degree and an MBA. Jim has five grandchildren with the youngest graduating from high school this year and the oldest graduated from college two years ago. Victoria Addison, who owns Addison Rowe Fine Art in Santa Fe, is a long-term partner and they spend most of our free time hiking and traveling.

Anne McDonald Culp, Ph.D., Board Director
Anne McDonald Culp is a developmental child psychologist with graduate degrees from the University of Colorado and the University of Kansas. She recently retired as professor in the Department of Child, Family, and Community Sciences at the University of Central Florida. She has taught at three universities and conducted research on the development of infants and young children, early intervention, and mother child interactions. She continues to be active in the American Psychological Association in the divisions of Child and Family Advocacy Policy and Practice and Developmental Psychology.

Anne grew up in Denver Colorado in a 1920 craftsman home and has been visiting Santa Fe with her family since the late 1960’s. Once married, she and her husband, Rex, annually visited Santa Fe with their daughter, Kate. Anne has been a member of the Historic Santa Fe Foundation since 2012 when she and Rex bought an 1880 Territorial home in Santa Fe. This was their second historic 1800’s home, the first in Lawrence Kansas, which was an Italianate, built in 1870. She and Rex also lived in a Cottage-style 1920 home in Orlando, Florida. Anne has been president of the Old West Lawrence Historic Neighborhood Association in Lawrence, Kansas and a board member of the Lake Eola Historic Neighborhood Association in Orlando, Florida.

Timothy D. Maxwell, Ph.D., Board Director
Tim Maxwell was an archaeologist with the Museum of New Mexico for almost 30 years and is Director Emeritus of the museum’s Office of Archaeological Studies. As an archaeologist he worked across New Mexico and worked for eight field seasons in Mexico. In the mid-1980s, he served on city’s Historic Design Review Board and co-authored Santa Fe’s archaeological protection ordinance, the first such municipal ordinance in the U.S. Later involvement in historic preservation included serving as president of the Old Santa Fe Association and, along with other preservationists, received the John L. Chaffee Award from the National Trust for Historic Preservation. As an archaeologist he worked across the state and for 10 field seasons in northern Mexico, receiving a Fulbright Fellowship for research in that country. He currently serves on the board of the Santa Fe Archaeological Society.

Tim Sweeney, Board Director
Tim Sweeney moved to Taos in 2022 after many years as a fascinated visitor from Denver. Tim’s career as a lawyer included advising Colorado and New Mexico land trusts (including Taos Land Trust) in a wide range of conservation easement transactions and stewardship matters. Tim has more than 30 years’ experience representing real estate investors, developers, lenders, shopping center tenants and landlords and global media companies in complex real estate and corporate transactions. As in-house attorney and corporate secretary at a publicly traded company, Tim advised a corporate board of directors in financial reporting, corporate governance, legal compliance and executive compensation. After retiring as a lawyer, Tim was appointed Secretary and member of the board of directors of Taos Land Trust. Tim also stays busy as a grateful steward of his home orchard and acequia, taking advantage of ski days and local hiking and cycling trips whenever time permits.

Honorary Director
Randy Bell, President, Old Santa Fe Association

Volunteers and Individual Partnerships

Santa Fe Extension Master Gardeners, Garden Volunteers
Office volunteers: Jerry Allen, Jenifer Kirtland, Debra Trammell, and David Roe
William Mee, Agua Fria Village Association

Committees

Executive Committee - Determine board meeting agenda; entertain proposals from Board Directors
Larry Good, Chair
Greg Walke, Vice Chair
Tony Sawtell, Secretary
Harlan Flint, Treasurer
Nick Wirth, Member-at-Large
Melanie McWhorter, HSFF Executive Director, ex officio

Finance Committee - Annual Budget, bank correspondence, 1099
Harlan Flint, Board Director, Chair
Tony Sawtell, Board Director
Melanie McWhorter, HSFF Executive Director, ex officio

Nominating Committee -Generate slate of officers; generate new board directors, review board membership expertise
Larry Good, Chair
All Board Directors are on this committee.

Education, Research, and Archives Committee - Education: Youth education, child workbooks, salon talks, preservation workshops. Research: HSFF Register of Historic Places (with Property Comm); El Zaguán Interpretation Gallery, Mac Watson Fellow, Old Santa Fe Today (with Development Committee). Archives: Organization and determination of location of archives.
Anne McDonald Culp
Nick Wirth, Board Director
Tim Maxwell, Board Director
Mac Watson, Volunteer
Audra Bellmore, Volunteer
Michael Reid, Volunteer
Hannah Hausman, Volunteer
Lisa Nordstrom, Volunteer
Melanie McWhorter, Executive Director, ex officio
Hanna Churchwell, HSFF Education and Communications Coordinator
Giulia Caporuscio, HSFF Development Associate and Research Historian
Jacob Sisneros, HSFF Preservation Projects and Programs Manager, as needed.

Development Committee - Fundraising, El Zaguán Capital Campaign, Memberships, Stewards – membership and four events a year, Events, Old Santa Fe Today (also under ERA)
Larry Good, Board Director, Chair
Jenifer Kirtland, Volunteer
Anthony Penner, Volunteer
Melanie McWhorter, Executive HSFF Director, ex officio

Property Committee - El Zaguán Master Plan Renovations, Endangered Properties, John Gaw Meem Preservation Trades Internship, Preservation Easements, and HSFF Register of Historic Properties (also under ERA)
Greg Walke, Board Director, Chair
Larry Good, Board Director
Graciela Tomé, volunteer
Mac Watson, volunteer
Melanie McWhorter, Executive Director, ex officio
Jacob Sisneros, HSFF Preservation Projects and Programs Manager

Our Team