793 Camino del Poniente, Santa Fe, NM – SOLD

Carved wooden gate in an adobe wall at 793 Camino del Poniente, with iron lanterns, climbing vines, and a pumpkin on the step

About the property

793 Camino del Poniente is a historically significant adobe compound on two thirds of an acre a block from Canyon Road, off Acequia Madre and Abeyta Street on the Eastside. It is gated and walled on every side, and inside the walls is a park: lawn, mature trees, and the quiet that a perimeter wall buys on the Eastside. The main house and a separate guest house together offer four bedrooms and four baths in 3,025 square feet, with four fireplaces and a one car attached garage.

The Webster Estates team handled this transaction, with Richard Theobald, and the sale closed in 2004.

The compound

Everything is adobe. The ceilings carry vigas and latillas, and in places the vigas are coved, the older and more laborious way of finishing a ceiling. The floors are brick and saltillo tile. The guest house has fourteen foot ceilings, which is unusual in a building of its size and makes it a studio as much as a guest quarters.

A compound like this is bought for what cannot be built again: the adobe, the age, the trees, and the location, one block from the galleries and a walk to the Plaza, behind walls that make all of that private.

The neighborhood

Camino del Poniente is a short lane off Abeyta Street, between Acequia Madre and Canyon Road in the heart of the Historic East Side. The acequia still runs through the neighborhood, the lanes are narrow and walled, and the houses behind the walls are the oldest and most sought after in the city.

Our Historic East Side neighborhood guide and Canyon Road neighborhood guide cover the area, and the Historic East Side market archive collects our sales there. Nearby we have handled 524 Garcia Street, 607 Miller, and the Gerald Cassidy Estate on Canyon Road. Our guide to Northern New Mexico vernacular homes explains the adobe tradition.

About the transaction

We represented the seller at 793 Camino del Poniente, with Richard Theobald as listing broker and Chris Webster co-listing. The compound sold in ten weeks and closed within two percent of the asking price, just before Christmas 2004. A walled historic compound a block from Canyon Road has a buyer waiting for it in most years; the work was in pricing it so that buyer did not hesitate.

Frequently asked questions

Q: Where is 793 Camino del Poniente? A: Off Abeyta Street between Acequia Madre and Canyon Road on the Historic East Side, a block from Canyon Road.

Q: How large is the compound? A: 3,025 square feet across a main house and a guest house, with four bedrooms, four baths, and four fireplaces, on two thirds of an acre behind perimeter walls.

Q: What are the notable features? A: All adobe construction, vigas and latillas including coved vigas, brick and saltillo floors, a guest house with fourteen foot ceilings, and park-like walled grounds.

Q: Is it gated? A: Yes. The compound is gated and fully walled.

Q: Which side did Webster Estates represent? A: We represented the seller.

The Webster Estates Team handled this transaction. Chris Webster, Patti Webster, Christopher Webster III, and Paisley Mason Webster, Associate Brokers at Sotheby’s International Realty, operating from 54½ Lincoln Avenue on The Plaza since 1976.