The Elizabeth and Henry Berchtold House is one of several red-brick bungalow homes constructed on the north side of Marcy Street in the 1910s. In Santa Fe, bungalows predated the preference for constructing or remodeling local homes in the regional Spanish Pueblo Revival Style; a practice begun in 1913 with the restoration of the Palace of the Governors. The Berchtold family moved to Santa Fe in 1912 from Illinois. Henry Berchtold suffered from tuberculosis and came to New Mexico to recover. The Berchtolds decided to stay in Santa Fe, purchasing their Queen Anne Style bungalow on Marcy Street in 1914. The family remained in the home for eighty-five years, until the death of daughter Clara Berchtold Mabry in 1999.
From Old Santa Fe Today, 5th edition by Audra Bellmore with photographs by Simone Frances.
PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF MELANIE MCWHORTER