The Inn of the Five Graces Opens a Two-Bedroom Villa Behind a Red Gate in Santa Fe
Red Door, an approximately 2,000-square-foot residence inside the Roque Tudesqui House, gives the Santa Fe hotel a fully residential key with two private courtyards and a dining room for ten.
The Inn of the Five Graces has added Red Door, a roughly 2,000-square-foot private villa set behind an adobe wall and the weathered red wooden gate that gives it its name, in Santa Fe's Barrio de Analco.
The villa occupies part of the Roque Tudesqui House, a Historic Society plaque property that predates the Spanish colonial adobe era. A portion was built using puddled adobe, an Indigenous technique in which mud was packed by hand rather than formed into bricks, and local tradition holds that part of the structure may survive from the Pueblo that occupied the site as early as the 1200s. The house was divided into two residences in 1895 and passed through a succession of owners, among them Marjorie Allen, credited locally with saving it when it was slated to become a parking lot for state government buildings.
Inside are a primary bedroom with an ornate king bed, a second bedroom facing a courtyard, a living room with an adobe style gas fireplace, a dining room seating eight to ten, a kitchenette, a powder room and a full bath with a deep soaking tub. Interiors follow the Seret & Sons language of antiques, custom textiles and hand-laid mosaics. Two landscaped courtyards and a back deck open onto a shared garden.