Preservation Across Cultures: Discovering El Zaguán
Thursday, September 25, 2025
- At the Historic Santa Fe Foundation545 Canyon Road #2Santa Fe, NM, 87501United States
Querencia is proud of one of our first interns Mulham Alkharboutli, an architect from Syria with a Master of Science in Historic Preservation from the University of Notre Dame, as he shared his experience as a 2025 Faith and John Gaw Meem Preservation Trades Intern with the Historic Santa Fe Foundation.
During his internship, he turned this framework toward the north side of El Zaguán, particularly the little-studied garages area. With very little surviving evidence of its history, Mulham worked on preliminary archaeological investigation, documentation, and archival research, Followed by an intervention under the guidance of Jacob Sisneros. These efforts, combined with hands-on carpentry, uncovered new layers of Santa Fe’s history and gave tangible form to preservation as both material repair and cultural interpretation.
