Roque Tudesqui House - Historic Santa Fe Foundation

Lopez and Sandoval owned the property from the mid 1860s to
the mid 1880s. It has recently been learned through studying the history of
the Candalario store on San Francisco
Street that Lopez was the
son ofDamaso
Lopes. A native of
Spain, the elder Lopes was a mining
expert and a trader. At his death
in 1851, his son Francisco and
three siblings inherited interests in
several valuable tracts on San
Francisco Street (including the
eventual Candelario property) and
on the west side ofthe Plaza. Francisco
Lopez was a miller and may
have had a mill on the De Vargas
Street property. When the census MIS anue . Did e ga 0
taker found Lopez and Sandoval
in 1870, they were apparently
Locario and Francisco.
living there with their two young children,
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In 1874 Figenia and Francisco sold two rooms at the southwest
comer of the tract to Cresencia Dias for $50. Dias and Lopez sold these
two rooms in September 1876 to Feliciana Quintana de Blumner, who
had used an inheritance from her father to purchase the adjoining tract on
the west the preceding February. Quintana's husband, Charles Blumner,
had died the preceding June.
In 1885 Francisco Lopez and Figenia Sandoval transferred the
property (minus the previously sold two rooms) for $1,100 to Ludlena
Thomson. Thomson was divorced from John Thomson four years later.
At some point after 1890 the property was transferred to Harry L. and
Lucy M. Waldo.5 Judge Waldo (1844-1915) was an influential New
Mexico lawyer as well as former New Mexico attorney general and chief
justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court. At the time he purchased this
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