The Beginning Show House Santa Fe

This year’s Show House Santa Fe is “Reinventing Western Classics” which is perfect because this residence is not only a Western classic, it’s a Western classic that has been reinvented at least twice since coming into existence sometime in the late 1700’s. Known as the Frank Applegate Estate, it’s an original adobe that was built as an 18th century fortress before being bought in 1845 by Sergeant Francisco de la Pena, a soldier in the Mexican army who’d fought at the battle of the Alamo not ten years earlier. De la Pena purchased the residence for a whopping $114.00 and renovated/reinvented the house for He and his wife and eight children.