Simone Frances well remembers the day she photographed La Capilla de San Ysidro Labrador. The sun had appeared in a smoke-filled sky, striking the stones of the 1928 chapel known locally as Lopez Chapel. “I shot that location at least three times, but that day the sky was so orange because of the fires and the low clouds,” said the Santa Fe photographer whose exhibit, Properties Worthy of Preservation: Photographs from Old Santa Fe Today (5th Edition), opened Friday at El Zaguán on Canyon Road. The collection and book are the culmination of nearly three years of work documenting the most valuable properties listed as worthy of preservation by the Historic Santa Fe Foundation. READ THE ARTICLE.

Santa Fe’s history lives in its buildings— in the places where people lived, worked, played, studied and worshipped during the past several centuries. Many of the buildings are wonderful in themselves; as examples of adobe construction, for instance. And in both the buildings and their people, we realize the importance of historic preservation. One esteemed survivor is the Otero-Bergere House on Grant Avenue. It was built by the U.S. Army in the 1870s as an officers’ residence… This is one of nearly 100 buildings and other historic features profiled in the new, fifth edition of Old Santa Fe Today. Published by Museum of New Mexico Press in association with the Historic Santa Fe Foundation, the book is 288 pages, with 255 photographs. Originally published in 1966, it was last updated to its fourth edition in 1991. READ THE ARTICLE.

Many people in Santa Fe walk its winding streets and look up at its adobe buildings with little knowledge of the vast history deep beneath its surface. Alysia Abbott travels the same paths every day but with a deep understanding of the dead who rest below our feet. Abbott, an archaeologist, has been fascinated with Santa Fe's lost dead for about a decade. In a city with an almost endless history, long-forgotten cemeteries continually popped up as she worked on other projects throughout the city. Eventually, these places drew her in. Abbott said she started making a list of cemeteries that were not a part of the general, more modern knowledge of Santa Fe. And over time, her list grew to nearly 30 resting spots for generations who otherwise would be lost to time. Abbot said she gave a cemetery talk to the Historic Santa Fe Foundation a couple of years ago and was approached by the nonprofit to develop the Lost but Not Forgotten Cemetery Tour. READ THE ARTICLE.