Historic Kruger house on the market

illard Carl Kruger, the architect responsible for the Roundhouse, built this beautiful home in the South Capitol neighborhood for his own family in 1955. The 4,442-square-foot house, which now includes later additions and updatings, has walls of pentile, frame, and masonry block. The house’s quality is told in the elegantwood pocket doors, the hardwood flooring, and wonderful details such as the door moldings incorporating central strips that are horizontally ribbed.

W.C. Krugerwas born in Texas in 1910 and grew up in Raton. His early designs, in associationwith architect Kenneth Clark, included the Mora County Courthouse (1939) and Carlos Gilbert Elementary School (1942).

Kruger’s company developed Los Alamos for the Manhattan Project, according to a history for the Fairview CemeteryAssociation by Corinne P. Sze. After World War II, his firm was awarded about $75 million in Atomic Energy Commission commissions for Los Alamos lab technical projects, housing, a shopping center, a hospital, schools, and the distinctive Los Alamos Post Office, with its thunderbird-motif grilles on the front windows.

Among his other projects are the Kruger Professional Building (1950), the Governor’s Mansion (1954, no longer extant), the New Mexico State Penitentiary (1954), the New Mexico State Capitol (1966), and the PERA Building (1968). The architect died in 1984.

This home at 1200 Madrid Road is also distinctive because it was the focus of work by more than a dozen interior-design firms. The annual ShowHouse Santa Fe event, founded six years ago by designers David Naylor and Jennifer Ashton, was staged in partnership with Santa Fe Properties.

The special theme for the 2018 event was “AWorld of Taste,” in which each designer was paired up with a local culinary establishment. “Itwas a lot of fun to think a little out of the box and ask the designers to be inspired by a local chef,” Ashton said. “Each relationship in the collaborations was uniquely sought after per those pairings, so we had a little of everything, which made it fun. We didn’t want to lock people into what they had to do other than take a little or a lot from each other and make it work.”

She said more than 700 people attended the ShowHouse evening gala and over 2,000 more participated in the public tours held during two weekends in October. Ashton said the event raised between $40,000 and $50,000 for Dollars4Schools.

The chef-designer pairings resulted in a great variety of decorator enhancements to the various rooms in the house — for example byWiseman Gale Duncan Interiors, paired with Izanami from TenThousandWaves; and ShowHomes Santa Fe (Elisa & Brandon Macomber) paired with Eloisa. Jennifer Ashton Interiors did the 1,111-square-foot guest house, teaming with Luminaria, while David Naylor Interiors focused on the master suite, inspired by Rio Chama Steakhouse.

One of the more dramatic rooms in the annual designer forum was modified by Metamorphosis, with an East Indian theme inspired by Paper Dosa. The copper ceiling represented seven weeks on scaffolding for artist and decorative painter Bekye Fargason. “Bekye did all the copper leaf, and