Roque Tudesqui House - Historic Santa Fe Foundation

June 21, 1960
Fireplace almost finished-bricks and more bricks. Boris has
designed it and it is going to be elegant when painted white. [They plastered
it and we painted the plaster white.] Wonderful for display or
arrangements. Not another one like it. [That wasn i trueforever. Afriend
of ours, Zig Kosicki, asked Boris ifhe could copy it. He was a doctor
here who was building a house on Garcia Street, near Camino
Corrales.]
Tomorrow is Adolfo's last day
except when he comes for a couple
of days to put on final white plasterl
inside. Wish we could afford to keep
him all summer. We'll miss him. Boris
is busy fixing door and windows.
[Front room patio door, that is. He
~ didn i do the windows finally.) Next
~ week I hope we'll get to the drive;
~ the wall across knocked through, an
] u the front finished. [The stuff we ha,
""
'"' to tear out of here, before we coull
~ start anything! There were the con
o crete block wall across the frontt
Interior corner fireplace that big plaster board wall insid
across the zagmin, the cement floG,
in that hallway, and the cement steps up infront.] Wish it weren't a
such heavy work; then I could do more. Mau-Mau is really a patio pam
and loves it out there. Talking, whistling all day.
June 27,1960
Boris has started knocking out the front. What ajob! [That's t,
very front where Boris constructed the big gate that's there now. 1l
space between our front room and the building next door on the e,
had been partly filled in with concrete blocks. Lumpkins had instan
one of the old St. Michael's doors as a front entrance. We replac
the cement block wall with Boris's gate and eventually put the 0
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