New York portrait artist Orin Sheldon Parsons (1866-1943) came to Santa Fe in 1913 to recover from tuberculosis. He was welcomed into the Santa Fe Art colony and ultimately became the first art director of the New Mexico Museum of Art in 1920-21. In 1924 and 1926, Parson’s daughter Sara purchased the two-story Spanish Pueblo Revival adobe home and two adjoining four-room structures on Cerro Gordo Road for her father. The Sheldon Parsons House and Studio typifies the Santa Fe artist compound, a mixed use of a single-family home combined with studio, selling space and small apartments for guests.
From Old Santa Fe Today, 5th edition by Audra Bellmore with photographs by Simone Frances.