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HISTORIC ALBUQUERQUE Plaza to Plaza Self-Guided Walking Tour Downtown Civic Plaza to Old Town Plaza Blank Page for Notes: Blank Page for Notes: City of Albuquerque Welcome to Historic Albuquerque Martin J. Chavez, Mayor Albuquerque’s Plaza to Plaza Tour is the marked trail connecting the plazas of Downtown and Old Town. These public plazas, built more than 250 years apart, show Albuquerque City Council from the tiny 18th-century settlement to the burgeoning city it has become. Walking Miguel Gomez, District 1 from plaza to plaza reveals an Albuquerque that can hardly be enjoyed from inside a car Debbie O'Malley, District 2 or bus. See and learn about historic neighborhoods and buildings, public art and Eric Griego, District 3 distinctive design. Brad Winter, District 4 Michael Cadigan, District 5 Step lively and mind the traffic; you're in for a treat and some exercise. The trail is about Martin Heinrich, District 6 1.3 miles (2km) and takes about 30 minutes at normal walking pace to complete the one- Sally Mayer, District 7 way trip. This tour is best experienced in the daylight as some of the streets may not be Craig Loy, District 8 well lit after dark. Tina Cummins, District 9 The tour route starts in Civic Plaza in Downtown Albuquerque, but if you are beginning Planning Department: Tour text and photos by Ed Boles; maps by Jesse Garves and in Old Town Plaza, simply follow the book from the back to the front. Neal Weinberg. Family and Community Services Department: Tour markers Civic Plaza Downtown Booklet Design/Layout: Albuquerque Convention & Visitors Bureau- Maresa Thompson, Communications Specialsit 1Marquette & 4th St. Civic Plaza, Albuquerque, was built on two Every effort has been made to maintain the accuracy of information presented in this downtown blocks in 1972. By then, downtown booklet. The City of Albuquerque and the Albuquerque Convention & Visitors Bureau had become New Mexico’s most developed assume no responsibility for errors, changes or omissions. downtown area, having sprung from the Santa Fe Railway’s local arrival in 1880. Before Civic Plaza's construction, an important highway ran through Visitor Information Centers here. New Mexico Route 1, later the first local Stop by one of the following Albuquerque Convention & alignment of Route 66 and US 85, passed north-south through this space along Fourth Visitors Bureau information centers for a variety of visitor Street. Today that ex-roadway is a promenade joining Marquette and Tijeras Avenues information materials, including calendars of events and north and south of Civic Plaza. brochures describing local and out-of-town driving tours. From the north side of Civic Plaza (Marquette Avenue), go west on Marquette past City Old Town Information Center: Plaza Don Luis on Romero Hall to 5th Street. At the corner of 5th and Marquette, find the bronze trail marker in the NW, across from the San Felipe de Neri church. Open daily; sidewalk. Its Old Town arrow points north across Marquette: cross the street and seasonal hours. continue northward to Roma Avenue. At 5th and Roma find a marker pointing west: cross 5th and follow Roma westward. Follow the arrows on these markers all the way to Downtown Information Center: Located in the Albuquerque Convention Center's Old Town. Markers appear at each street corner along the route. East Complex. 401 2nd St NW; seasonal hours.

Airport Information Center: Located in the lower level of the Albuquerque Law Office Complex International Sunport in the baggage claim area. Open daily 9:30am-8pm. 2505-09 Roma NW A 1960-something, sub-urban sort of building, Albuquerque Visitor Information: 800-284-2282 www.itsatrip.org this office court seems out of place so near the center of the city. The brick-clad drum at the rear appears to have flown downtown and landed on a concrete stand, shading the parking area below. Its round shape creates a dilemma: there's no corner office for a company's chief executive. Lew Wallace Ending in Old Town? 3Elementary School Pass some time in Old Town and enjoy yourself! Shops, galleries, restaurants and cafés await you 513 6th NW along Old Town's byways. There are seven Built in 1934, it's the first of many New Mexico museums in the Old Town area. For further projects of the Public Works Administration, a guidance,in Old Town find photo the by Visitor Jeff Greenberg Center in Plaza Don federal New Deal program to counteract the Luis, the shopping complex westward, across Great Depression of 1929-1942. Lew Wallace, a Romero Street, from San Felipe Church. Shopping US Army general during the mid-19th century, governed the New Mexico Territory from 1878 to 1881. He's better known for writing the Biblical-era historical novel, Ben Hur. Ending in Downtown? If you started in Old Town and are finishing in W.E. Mauger House Downtown Albuquerque you are in the Arts and 4701 Roma NW Entertainment District with many theatres, clubs, Hardware dealer and wool buyer W.E. Mauger bars and restaurants, as well as a variety of bought the house in 1907, less than five years shopping options which make for a great evening after its construction. He and partner H.P. Raabe ofwww.marblestreetstudio.com entertainment. Downtown Civic Plaza photo by sold domestic and agricultural hardware and supplies to residents of Albuquerque and its trade area. Return Trip Now a bed-and-breakfast inn, the house was thoroughly renovated after its 1984 listing Walk back for twice the exercise or... in the National Register of Historic Places. ABQ Ride Bus 505-243-7433 Catch an ABQ Ride bus at the intersection of Rio Grande Boulevard and Central Avenue. Fourth Ward Historic District The Central Ave. bus runs every 10 minutes and the rates are about $1 each way. Several 5Roma & Keleher St. routes run downtown but don't stop right at Civic Plaza, the starting point of this trail. Roma Avenue enters the Fourth Ward Historic District at Keleher Street. One of Even so, you'll save many steps. Albuquerque's most valued, this house-dominated district mixes large, period-revival houses, bungalows and cottages with a fine collection of trees and shrubs. Professionals, Taxicabs politicians, stockmen and Call a taxicab to take you to the destination of your choosing. Several public telephones captains of local industry, are available in Old Town, one at the Plaza Don Luis shopping complex westward, across To Old Town from sawmill owners to Romero Street, from San Felipe Church. the founders of a clinic and health care plan, lived here Albuquerque Cab Company 505-883-4888 among merchants and Checker Cab Company 505-243-7777 Mary Fox Park Yellow Cab Company 505-247-8888 office workers. Named for From Downtown one of the four political subdivisions of the City of Albuquerque, incorporated in 1891, the historic district stretches south to Central Ï Avenue and north to N Lomas Boulevard. Cristobal Armijo House William Lyon House 21San Felipe & South Plaza Streets 6901 Roma NW Approaching the plaza, the trail passes the Dr. William Lyon supervised construction of the Cristobal Armijo House, whose portal shades the house’s first adobe rooms in 1882 while sidewalk at the corner of San Felipe and South corresponding with his fiancee, Corie Bowman of Plaza. Across San Felipe Street stands the Mesilla Park in southern New Mexico. They Ambrosio Armijo House, now La Placita Dining married soon after. His pre-nuptial letters to Rooms. These Armijo houses have marked the Corie cover topics from house-and-garden plaza's southeastern entry since their construction progress to the relationship between theology between 1880 and 1885. In those years New and the theory of evolution. Albuquerque was booming 1½ miles eastward. That new town and this old one eventually became one city, but not officially until 1949. Whitmer-McKinnon House Old Town Plaza 7504 Luna Boulevard NW 22 Family residence, rest home, maternity center– this house has changed in use since construction Here is the historic heart of Albuquerque, where in 1920 by Thaddeus Whitmer, lumber mill the pace slows and pedestrians find refuge from owner. His widow, Mary, kept the mill and house fast traffic. Old Town's official beginning was after his death in 1931. The Daniel McKinnon April 23, 1706, when Francisco Cuervo y Valdes, family bought the house in 1944 and stayed until Spanish Governor of New Mexico, certified the 1967. McKinnon was a surgeon and partner in founding of the Villa of Alburquerque (note Albuquerque’s Lovelace Clinic, which in 1959 examined America's first astronaut original spelling). Spain's Laws of the Indies, in effect at the time, required setting a plaza candidates in Project Mercury. at the center of any villa. This plaza fronts the San Felipe Neri Church complex, the dominant historic buildings in Old Town. Built in 1793, the church has seen many An original patio remains at the center, open to the sky. Returned to residential use since additions and alterations, some delightfully decorative. For example, the two carpenter- 1983, the house's non-original garage matches its Spanish-Pueblo Revival style, and Gothic, wooden steeples were added in 1861-1862. drought-resistant plantings complete the picture.

As at downtown Albuquerque's Civic Plaza, an important road once ran through the Old Town Kate Nichols Chaves House Plaza. El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the Royal Road of the Interior Lands, connected New 8501 11th NW Mexico's Spanish capitals, San Gabriel and later, This Tudor Revival Style house of 1909, Albuqu- Santa Fe, with Mexico City. From 1598 until the erque's earliest docu-mented architectural design opening of the Santa Fe Trail in 1821, El Camino by a woman, carries her name. Daughter of an Real was the main route into New Mexico for English-born architect, Kate Nichols married people, animals and goods from distant places. Amado Chaves, a lawyer, politician and New Now El Camino Real is a National Historic Trail Mexico's first superintendent of public instruction. designated by the U.S. government, and its importance becomes better known as time She designed and supervised construction of the passes. San Felipe de Neri chruch photo by www.marblestreetstudio.com house, then drafted more designs in its upstairs study, though this seems to be the only one built. Mrs. Chaves died unexpectedly in 1914 and was survived by Mr. Chaves and their three children.

Today the house and grounds are shaded by American elm trees and amount to a landmark of Judges' Row, where, on 11th and 12th streets, several lawyers and jurists lived during the early 20th Century. Trumbull-Hesselden House CROSS LOMAS BOULEVARD 91211 Roma NW at San Pasquale traffic signal Built by Walter Trumbull in 1882, when few CROSS SAN PASQUALE and go houses stood between Old Town and the rail line to the east at New Albuquerque, this was an West along the North side of Lomas imposing duplex. Inside, two of the two-story units share a central stair leading to a surprisingly San Felipe School playground spacious attic. An 1886 bird's-eye view of Albuquerque shows the house with a windmill 19North of Lomas, Past San Pasquale behind. Imagine a massive stone building on this bare site, its front entry and pyramid-topped tower facing where you stand. Home to the Goss Military Institute for some of the 1890s and then the Hesselden family, It was the Bernalillo County Courthouse, built in 1886. the house was rented later as apartments. Once again a family’s residence, its crannies Vacated when the County seat moved downtown in the yield treasure: homework assignments written by Goss cadets, a child’s paper doll from 1930s, it housed the San Felipe School until its demolition the 1940s, and pieces of newspapers from as early as 1896. inAlbuquerque 1959. Old Museum, Bernalillo Landis County Collection Courthouse photo: The

The mansard style roof and sandstone walls are rare in Albuquerque houses. After 1880, the railroad connected the city with quarries to its east and west, but even so, few stone- walled buildings were ever erected here. CROSS SAN FELIPE STREET and follow it north to Old Town Plaza Stamm House 10323 13th NW Bottger House Built in 1912 for Mr. and Mrs. Roy Stamm, the 20110 San Felipe NW details of this bungalow reflect the arts and crafts This Old Town house is not so old— built in 1910- movement of the day. New Mexico attained The Sun 12 in what was then a modern house form-the statehood that same year. Mr. Stamm prospered American Foursquare. It seems out of place in in the wholesale fruit business and found Old Town— the metal tile roof, flattened arch adventure in early airplanes, balloons and porch openings, and ceilings of ornately stamped automobiles. His articles for New Mexico metal evoke places far from here. Charles Magazine praised fishing, skiing, and camping. The title of his autobiography, For Me, Bottger, its builder, came to Albuquerque in hopes , affirms his love of New Mexico's climate. of improving his health, as did many during the early 20th century. To build his home, Bottger demolished a 40-room adobe house– that of General Manuel Armijo, three-time governor of New Mexico during its Mexican Period, 1821-46. The Bottger house is now Mary Fox Park a bed-and-breakfast inn. 11Roma and 14th St. The park's winding path bends the trail from westbound Roma Avenue to northbound 14th Passage to the Plaza Street. For a breather, linger under the arbor and From the Bottger House, go north along San Felipe Street to the Old Town Plaza. Before reflect on the generosity of Mary Fox, who saw to you reach the plaza, note Old Town Road joining San Felipe from the right. This is the the making of this place. old passage into the plaza from aptly named Mountain Road, which once connected Old Town with the mountains east of here. From the mountains Albuquerqueans took game, firewood and piñon nuts, and grazed their livestock on the broad expanse between the You're halfway to the Old Town Plaza. mountains and the Rio Grande floodplain. 1803 Lomas NW JJ Megs House 15Across Lomas from trail 12323 14th NW This old house of low, irregular profile hints at its This eclectic delight in stucco with red and green wall material–adobe bricks. Sun-baked and laid tile recalls the state question of New Mexico— with mud mortar, adobe walls can be straight or "Red or green?," as in which kind of chile do you wavy but they usually have "soft" edges like these. prefer on your enchiladas?

TURN LEFT AT 14TH & LOMAS "Las Mesas" bus stop Go West along the South side of Lomas Boulevard 16Across Lomas from trail Tommie Findley designed the wall behind the Federico Armijo's ruffled canopy as a 1% for Arts project in 1983. Behind it sits one of the city's oldest houses...read 13Sculpture on. Lomas & 14th St. Its name, “Formas Esperando Palabra de Otros Mundos,” is Spanish for “Forms Waiting for Word Luciano Duran House from Other Worlds”. This sculpture was funded by the City’s 1% for the Arts program. 171805½ Lomas NW One of Albuquerque's oldest, it probably dates to before 1846, when Army General Stephen Kearny claimed New Mexico for the United Nearby Historic Districts States. Long, narrow and made of adobe, its North and south of Lomas Blvd., 16th Street leads into two registered historic districts. walls are 18-24 inches thick. Many early North is the WATSON HISTORIC DISTRICT, named for its developer, Leon Watson. He Albuquerqueans lived in houses of this type. built this neighborhood of adobe homes just before and after World War II, applying Luciano Duran was a farm laborer and leather- traditional materials and details to modern ranch-house floor plans. South is LA ORILLA worker whose children ran a market on the Old Town Plaza. An ancestor, Juan Rafael DE LA ACEQUIA/AL LADO, a remnant of the Hispanic neighborhood that sprang up here Duran, helped settle Albuquerque. about 1900. Today it's a quiet enclave between the thoroughfares of Lomas and Central.

1913 Lomas NW Course of Acequia Madre 18 14de Albuquerque This eclectic house's landscaping includes vehicles (crosses Lomas between 17th and 19th) such as old fire hose carts. Its timber-enhanced The "mother ditch" of the local irrigation system design hints at the character of some Old Town no longer flows through here, an area marked by patios and store— just a couple of blocks ahead. parking lots and other non-agricultural features. Part of a system older than the United States government, this ditch is a memory while others still trace parts of the Rio Grande valley. The Acequia Madre watered gardens, orchards, and powered grist mills such as La Molina de la Glorieta nearby. The Acequia's course remains partly in place, marking the edge between Old and New Albuquerque, as the 1706 Spanish settlement and 1880 railroad boomtown were called a century ago.

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