Additions and Subdivisions
American Garage
Armijo Building
Armijo Building
Located at 2nd & Central Avenue NW, then known as Railroad Avenue, the N.T. Armijo Building was constructed in 1892 and demolished in 1969 to make way for a parking lot.
Billy Graham Tabernacle
Billy Graham Tabernacle
"Albuquerque’s Sanderson family, however, had a pile of wood and steel sitting on a lot on San Mateo just south of Central. They had planned to put up a roller-skating rink, but construction restrictions during World War II had delayed the building.
Community leaders who wanted to bring Graham to town met with the family, and a deal was made to erect a 55,000-square-foot building at a cost of $79,000. Later, it would become the Rainbow Gardens Roller Drome, but it was first known as the Billy Graham Tabernacle. Graham appeared in crusade there for most of November in 1952."
Quoted from Albuquerque Journal February 21, 2018
Champion Grocery
Cromwell Building
Cromwell Building
El Cortez Building
El Cortez Building
El Fidel Hotel
Fraser Mill
Fraser Mill
Freed Building
Freed Building
Giomi Building
Giomi Building
Henrietta Hotal
Henrietta Hotel
Hilton Hotel
Hilton Hotel
Iceberg
Iceberg
First opened in 1931, the Iceberg Cafe was a piece of far-out architecture: an iceberg with a bear climbing on top. The primary offering of the cafe was custard and it moved several times, eventually moving to the town of Bernalillo.
Source: LOC via Farm Security Administration
Ilfeld Building
Ilfeld Building
The Charles Ilfeld Company Warehouse, built 1911-1912, was part of a large chain of wholesale stores in New Mexico. Designed by the firm of Trost and Trost, the industrial structure with its bands of simple metal, sash windows, projecting cornice and use of graphics makes a bold design statement.
Source: LOC
La Placita Restaurant
La Placita Restaurant
Built in the 19th century on the edge of Old Town Plaza and opened as La Placita Dining Rooms in 1935.
KiMo Theatre
Kimo Theater
- American picture palaces: the architecture of fantasy byPublication Date: 1981
- The KiMo, Albuquerque, New Mexico: historic structure report, 1980 byPrepared by Harvey S. Hoshour for State of New Mexico, Department of Finance and Administration, State Planning Division, Historic Preservation Bureau.
- KiMo: king of its kind [videorecording (DVD)] byPublication Date: 2005
- KiMo Theatre [vertical file]Newspaper clippings, photo, booklet, typed summary of building history.
King's Hotel
Kistler Collister
Kistler Collister
Knights of Pythias Building
Knights of Pythias Building
Korber Building
Korber Building
Monte Vista Fire Station
Monte Vista Fire Station
New Mexico State Fairgrounds
New Mexico State Fairgrounds
- Lands of NE Albuquerque, N.M., 1943 [map] byA map detailing suburban development along Central Avenue east of the New Mexico State Fairgrounds and north to the southern boundary of the Elena Gallegos grant. The map shows street names, dwellings, filling stations, stores tourist courts and night clubs. The East End addition is refered to as a "negro settlement." Buildings are shown as they existed June 2, 1943.
Occidental Building
Rosenwald Building
Rosenwald Building
Selvia Hotel
Selvia Hotel
Sturges Hotel
Sturges Hotel
Advertisement in the Albuquerque Journal June 29, 1913
Sunshine Theater
Sunshine Theater
"The six-story building was designed by the El Paso firm of Trost & Trost and built in 1924, originally housing offices and a 920-seat movie theater, the first "movie palace" of its kind in Albuquerque. The first film shown there was Scaramouche, starring Ramón Novarro and accompanied by a special orchestra for the occasion. The theater stopped showing first-run movies in 1974 and closed completely in the 1980s, but has since been remodeled into a popular live music venue."
From Sunshine Theater websiteYMCA
YMCA
In January 1957 there was a campaign to raise money for the renovation of the YMCA at 101 Central Avenue, NW and construction of a new facility on Indian School Rd.
