Roque Tudesqui House - Historic Santa Fe Foundation

property he was exclusively employed as the New Mexico lawyer for the
AT&SF Railway.
In February 1894 Judge Waldo sold the property to William L.
Jones, who purchased the tract adjoining on the west the following October.
Thus were joined (for the first
time in the documentary records)
the two units now known as the
"Tudesqui" House.6 The properties
did not remain together more
than a few months. In February
1895 Jones sold the west portion
to Bertha L. Cartwright. This was
the approximate property that
Roque Tudesqui had sold in 1841.
About 100 years later, in 1939, the
Cartwright heirs sold it to James
(Jimmie) Caldwell.
Henry 1. Waldo
Jones and his wife Florence retained the east tract, now owned
by the HSFF, as their family home. Having arrived in Santa Fe about
1881, Jones became the bookkeeper ofthe First National Bank in 1889
and also served four years as the Santa Fe city treasurer. Neither he nor
his wife lived long to enjoy the De Vargas Street home. She died in March
1899, and he just a year later. They had no children and William left the
property to Elizabeth Bolander. ("[H]is home residence with its orchard,
placita, and kitchen garden ... for her sole use and benefit during her lifetime.")
At Bolander's death the property was to go to the trustees of the
Protestant Episcopal Church in New Mexico for the use and benefit of
the Church of the Holy Faith at Santa Fe.
Bolander, a single woman, lived in the house for about twenty
years. A month after her death in 1922, the rector of Holy Faith sold it to
another single woman, Sophie Knapp. She and her younger brother, Dr.
David Knapp, lived there until their deaths. As the new century progressed,
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