Restoration of the historic William Penhallow Henderson adobe on Santa Fe's Camino del Monte Sol — an early example of Spanish-Pueblo Revival style. Tent Rock, Inc.'s crew restored the crumbling adobe envelope, hand-made replacement tile and woodwork, and preserved the original adzed-beam ceilings.
The house
The historic William Penhallow Henderson house is an adobe Pueblo Revival home in Santa Fe on Camino del Monte Sol. The Henderson house and studio on the Camino boast a wealth of hand-crafted details — the lintels and other wood features are rustic, hand-worked quality, and the living-room ceiling is the original shiny, adzed beams and boards.
What we did
To restore this project took both detailed and large-scale work. Woodworkers created new windows to replace rotting frames, and the crumbling adobe was painstakingly restored by masons on our team. Replica floor and bath tile was hand-made on site. Hand-planed doors, a hand-carved island, and a careful choice of paint colors add warmth and authenticity to the historic home.
Context
In the 2000s, Tent Rock, Inc. founder Joel Muller served on the board of directors of the Historic Santa Fe Foundation. He has overseen several restorations of historic homes — an early one, in 1999, involved the adobe Georgia O'Keeffe House at Ghost Ranch north of Abiquiú.
Our approach
Tent Rock, Inc. self-performed the craft work that defines this kind of adobe property: the wall plane restoration, the on-site hand-made tile, the hand-planed wood elements, and the woodwork that interacts with the original adzed ceilings. We coordinated stone masons, adobe experts, and our in-house woodworkers as a single ready-made crew rather than sub-by-sub.
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