Roque Tudesqui House - Historic Santa Fe Foundation

Spent today in Taos. Took some of Boris 's work to show them
a new and lovely gallery there, called Allied. [Later this was Gallery A.
They were properly impressed. I hope it leads to something. It's the nice:
and most elegant gallery I've seen in these parts, run by my friend France:
Good. Beautiful trip, such magnificent country. Came back by a bac
road along the Rio Grande and picked up some handsome lava rocks fo
the patio. Shopped in Espanola where prices seem to be a little cheape
Am constantly amazed by the high food prices here.
Boris is gone for another
load of brick. Getting them for a cent
piece from a young boy who worked at the pen. Why didn't he com
around sooner? He has two thousand!
July 10, 1960 (Sunday)
The front is out. El zaguim is open [where we put the bigfro
gate.} Boris is busy putting up the roof and vigas today. [He s buildin,
the portal, I guess.} We're going into the bathroom right on Alto Stree
in view of all. Nice to have such a lovely view ofthe mountains. [He h
knocked out the cement-block enclosure of the doorway and it w,
wide open.} Boris was up until! 0 PM. making temporary plywood doo
for the front. It is wonderful to watch him move those heavy things aroun
It must impress the neighborhood. Our backyard looks like Rios's wo
yard-piles oflumber, vigas, rock, all kind of brick, adobes, sand,
so forth. It is a glorious day.
July 11, 1960
Poor Boris. He's having a hell of a time building
the "hall" ro
backwards, trying to get the vigas to fit under the roof instead ofbuil, ,. "
the roof on the vigas. [This is the area between the sala and the bat,
room up front where Lumpkins had created a hall. It was alrea
roofed. For the long portal, he could put the vigas up before the roo
July 13, 1960
The vigas are up. Looks so nice. Start on the gatepost tom
row. Hope the bulldozer comes to level off the patio and cut the bank
front. Then I can plant a garden in the patio, and Boris can get to the stl
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