Cornerstones Adobe Restoration and Preservation

Cornerstones Community Partnerships is the recipient of a Save America's Treasures (SAT) grant of $200,000 for the preservation of San Miguel Chapel on Old Santa Fe Trail in Santa Fe, New Mexico. One of the nation's oldest churches, San Miguel is illustrative of Spanish colonial and Native American heritage in the U.S. Sponsored by the Department of Interior and the National Park Service (NPS), forty-one other SAT grants, totaling 9.5 million dollars were awarded throughout the nation. First Lady Barbara Richardson sends, "My congratulations to Cornerstones Community Partnerships, an organization that has been working with New Mexico communities for over 25 years. I'm delighted that we have this chance to come together as a community in Santa Fe to help restore and preserve this important and historical site. "

The Catholic Foundation announces its 2010 grant application cycle. The grant application deadline is Friday, April 23, 2010. There will be a few grants available for historic preservation. Grants will range in size from $2,000 to $7,000. Email Marta with questions at marta@thecatholicfoundation.org or call 505-872-2901.
The Catholic Foundation is a charitable foundation dedicated to advancing the mission and ministries of the church, also recognizing that parishes, schools and social service organizations play a leding role in helping families.

San Miguel Chapel and Cornerstones were featured in an article on Cowboys and Indians on-line magazine. The article was written by Wolf Schneider and includes beautiful photographs of the Chapel in its early days. Keep checking the Cornerstones' webpage for more news about San Miguel. Visit Cowboys and Indians to read the article

Cornerstones Community Partnerships is joining with The University of Arizona's Drachman Institute and Preservation Studies Program of the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture and Vanishing Treasures Program of the National Park Service, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument to offer two field sessions to stabilize and preserve historic structures at the Bates Well Ranch in Organ Pipe Cactus NM, near Ajo, Arizona.

These two workshops offer hands on experience documenting and assessing structures, and preparing scopes of work for planning and compliance purposes. The hands on work is focused on timber and vernacular wooden structure stabilization involving dutchman type repairs, bracing structures, temporary shoring, limited replacement of wood materials "in kind," and diverse methods used to provide reversible compatible treatments which are both in compliance with the Secretary of Interiors Standards for Rehabilitation and the Guidelines for the Preservation and Maintenance of Vanishing Treasures Resources.

Winter workshop: January 4-8, 2010
The winter workshop is focused on preservation project planning skills including building assessment, developing scopes of work, materials specification, and budget development. In addition, one historic structure will be stabilized based on the specifications prescribed during the workshop.
Spring workshop: March 8-12, 2010
The spring workshop is focused on the stabilization of historic structures based on the specifications prescribed during the winter workshop.
Both workshops will be conducted in a field school format working collaboratively to develop and apply practical preservation skills and are targeted to university students and National Park Service staff. There is no charge for the workshops and all transportation, accommodation, and food costs will be covered for early registrants. Attendance is limited to 8 participants for each workshop.

Please contact Allison Kennedy, Project Coordinator with the Drachman Institute at (520) 626-3811 or
kennedya@ email.arizona.edu for further information and to register for the workshop.

Cornerstones was treated to a visit from Fundación Altiplano Executive Director Cristián Heinsen and staff members Balby Morán (architect), Pedro Hughes (architect), and Matías Heinsen (geographer).
Joining this group was Lourdes Abed from Ecuador. Our new friends from South America visited with us, discussing the ways both programs worked and toured San Miguel Chapel (one of Cornerstone's main projects for 2010) with program director Jake Barrow and executive director Robin Jones. They also visited the National Park Service to meet with personnel from the Vanishing Treasures Program and the National Trails Program. Later in the afternoon, Cristián offered a power point presentation to Cornerstones' friends, followed by a wine and cheese reception. The next day, the group visited Santa Fe museums and traveled to Chimayo and Taos, and from there, went cross country to tour other sites of the West, including the Grand Canyon, the Getty Center in L.A., the San Miguel Mission in San Luis Obispo County, and Carmel Mission Basillica. Be sure and visit Fundación Altiplano's website and look for Lourde's project in Cuenca, Ecuador - Iglesia de San Francisco.

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October 23, 2009 - Cornerstones was delighted to host a group of seven Japanese professionals who were examining "Historic Townscape Preservation in Urban Development." The Santa Fe Council on International Relations (special thanks to Karen Riley) and the International Scholarship and Training Program in San Francisco (special thanks to Naoko Dunnigan) facilitated the visit and Cornerstones was able to share information about preservation and youth participation in traditional building skills. Other participants included four crew leaders from Bernallio's Youth Conservation Corps, Cornerstones friends and board members.

Save the Date - October 1st, 2010.
Lumpkins Ballroom, Hotel La Fonda
Silent auction, live auction, dinner.

CORNERSTONES THANKS
these very generous individuals and in-kind donors for their support in making
/Noche Feliz 2009/ a success.

Event Sponsors
Estrellas
Peter & Honey Chapin • Bill Cowles • Hale Matthews Foundation
Arcangeles
Bill & Julie Ashbey • Jim & Peggy Gautier • Stanford & Phyllis Lehmberg
Los Alamos National Bank • Pete & Judy Talbott • Thornburg Investment Management
Angeles
Charmay Allred • Archdiocese of Santa Fe
Tom & Mitzi Barker • CHRISTUS-Saint Vincent Regional Medical Center • Crocker Limited • Gail Factor
Paul & Susanna Orzech • Greg Ridgley & Renee Martinez • Mike & Alexandra Ward
Pastores
Boni Armijo • George & Janie Bingham
Ann Caldwell • Century Bank • Bruce Chemel Craig Prestegord • Dick & Sharon Cooper • The Dougherty Real Estate Co., LLC • Kelley Fletcher • Dick Gerdes • Willian & Claire Gibbons • David & Darlene Haskin • Julia Jordan • Al & Elvie Ogard Jay W. Oppenheimer & Dolph Haas • Russ & Sandy Osterman • Donna Quasthoff • Elizabeth Romero & Roger Hyndman • Ed & Nancy Rubovits • St. Michael's High School • Watson Conserves • Nancy Wirth

Participating Artists
Page Allen • John Amos • Janet Shaw Amtmann • Carol Anthony • Laurie Archer • Joan Brooks Baker • Martha Rea Baker • Marj Becker • Joseph Bellacera • Paula Bellacera • Lisa Bemis • Tom Berg • Robert Bowley • Robert Brewer • Jacqueline Butler • Roberto Cardinale • Honey Chapin • Peter Chapin • Danna Cooper • Jan Denton • Debby Donovan • Gerry Donovan • Gail X. Factor • Kelley Fletcher • Alyce Frank • Jim Gautier • Peggy Gautier • Margit Good • Rebecca Hahs • Joretha Hall• Pomona Hallenbeck • Robin Hilliard • David Hofmann • Elaine Holien • Yon Hudson • Ann Huston • Barbara Ingram • Steven Jackson • Jennifer Joseph • Judy Just • Sheila Mahoney Keefe • Christopher Kent • Judith Kingsley • Loraine Klinger • Karl Koenig • Mary LaCaff • Ann Laser • Melissa Leehan • Amadeus Leitner •
Helmut Loehr • Nance Lopez • Glenda Loretto • Lynne Loshbaugh • Herb Lotz • Myrna McDonald • Emily McGarrity • Leslie McNamara • Christie Montoya • Sergio Moyano • Teresa Neptune • John Nieto • Nancy Noyes • Al Ogard • Elvie Vigil Ogard • Jack Parsons • Charlie Pepper • Louise Perkinson • Tom Perkinson • Diane Pinter • Victoria Rabinowe • Jon Richards • Chris Richter • Dave Robinson •
Teena Robinson • Susan Rojas • Nancy Rubovits •
Karen Sanchez • Ed Sandoval • Lily Schlien • Rupama Schwartz • Michael Seif • Jacobo de la Serna • Danielle Shelley • Robert Sinn • Monika Steinhoff • Michelle Stump• Michelle Tapia • TK Thompson • Sara Tyson • John Vavruska • Robert Villegas • Sally Hayden Von Conta • DeeAnne Wagner • Cynthia West

In-Kind Donors
Svetlana Abbott/Christie's Salon • Charmay Allred • Stuart Ashman • Tom & Mitzi Barker • Jake Barrow • The Bull Ring • Coca Cola • El Nido
Eloy's Pest Control • Forrest Fenn • Jim & Peggy Gautier • Guadalupe Café • Alex Hanna/Invisible City Designs
Charles Hathaway/Chrysalis Salon • Hilton Santa Fe Resort & Spa at Buffalo Thunder • Joe & Jenna Illick • Vicky Jacobson • La Fonda On The Plaza • Las Campanas • Stanford and Phyllis Lehmberg • Jody LeCher • Michael's Hair Salon • Ojo Caliente Mineral Springs Resort & Spa • O'Keefe Café • Michael O'Reilly • Paul and Susanna Orzech • Russ and Sandy Osterman • Osteria D'Assisi • Barbara Powell/Yoga Ma Barbara • Pranzo Italian Grill • Quail Run Rancho de San Juan • Ransom and Scout and Co. • James Reid Ltd. • Rio Chama Rosewood Inn of the Anasazi • Santacafé • Santa Fe Clay • Santa Fe Opera • Santa Fe Spa • Santa Fe Water Gardens • Santa Fe Weaving Gallery • Beverly Spears • Ten Thousand Waves • Tete de Veau • Southern Wines and Spirits • Trader Joe's • Tom Taylor Custom Jewelry • Upper Crust Pizza • Mike and Alexandra Ward • Whole Foods • Wild Birds Unlimited

CORNERSTONES COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS
Preserving Architectural Heritage
& Community Traditions
in New Mexico & the Southwest Since 1986
505-982-9521 www.cstones.org

Download our pdf of a press release announcing Cornerstones' designation as a Preserve America Steward.

Download our pdf of Cornerstones' Emergency Flood Mitigation Manual for Earthen Architecture.

Download our pdf of a press release announcing the publication of Cornerstones' Emergency Flood Mitigation Manual for Earthen Architecture.

Download our pdf of a press release announcing how Cornerstones' preservation work might reveal the mystery of whether the Tlaxcalatecan Indians built the San Miguel Chapel in Santa Fe.

For the Pueblo of Isleta, Cornerstones secured a major financial award from Save America Treasures, the most significant federal grant source for the protection of America's threatened cultural resources. The funds awarded are earmarked for restoration of St. Augustine Church at Isleta, considered to be New Mexico's oldest mission building in continuous use. This is the nation's most competitive preservation grant program and Isleta is one of only six projects to be funded west of the Mississippi this year.

A generous grant from the Getty Foundation awarded to the Pueblo of Acoma will allow it and Cornerstones to implement the return of the traditional earth roof to the nave of San Esteban del Rey Mission. This will be the first time a traditional Spanish Colonial earthen roof is restored to a Spanish Colonial mission in the United States.

Cornerstones' partners in the recently completed Socorro Mission Preservation Project in Socorro, Texas are recipients of the prestigious honors award from the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

The award was presented at the Trust's annual national conference held in Pittsburgh in October, 2006.