Roque Tudesqui House - Historic Santa Fe Foundation

The Gustave Baumann
A Conversation
House
Dana Evans, Sally Hyer and Paul McConnell
Board members
The Gustave Baumann House is located on Camino de las Animas
near the northeast comer ofthe Old Santa Fe Trail. Baumann designed
the house and crafted its highly personal
interior. He lived and worked in
this house for nearly fifty years, from 1923 until his death in 1971. Born
ninety years earlier in Magdeburg, Germany, Baumann immigrated with
his family to Chicago at the age of ten. By the time he was sixteen he was
working in commercial art and taking night courses at the Chicago Institute
of Art. After a number of stops in Munich, Germany, Indiana, western
New Yark, Provincetown, and Taos, Baumann arrived in Santa Fe as
a thirty-seven year old bachelor with a well-established international reputation
as an artist. He became immediately involved with the community of
artists in Santa Fe.
Baumann House 409 Camino de las Animas
In 1923, after living for several years on Canyon Road and 0
lower San Francisco Street, Baumann bought three lots on the north si,
of the street then called East Buena Vista. Baumann designed a sma
home and studio, which was of adobe and mud plaster.
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