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This is a list of historic landmarks in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as designated by the City Council. To date 24 individual properties (two of which are no longer standing) have been so designated. [1] Historic landmarks may not be demolished or significantly altered without approval from the Landmarks and Urban Conservation Commission. [2]
The Contested Homeland: a Chicano History of New Mexico. University of New Mexico Press. p. 239+. ISBN 0826321992. Published in the 21st century. David Kammer. "Albuquerque's 20th-Century Suburban Growth". New Mexico Office of the State Historian. New Mexico State Record Center and Archives circa 2004
Old Town is the historic original town site of Albuquerque, New Mexico, for the provincial kingdom of Santa Fe de Nuevo México, established in 1706 by New Mexico governor Francisco Cuervo y Valdés. It is listed on the New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties as the Old Albuquerque Historic District , [ 1 ] and is protected by a ...
The first colonizing expedition into New Mexico was led by Juan de Oñate in 1598, after which settlers began to trickle into the middle Rio Grande valley along the Camino Real. In the vicinity of modern-day Albuquerque, missions were established at Isleta Pueblo in 1613 [ 5 ] and Sandia Pueblo in 1617. [ 6 ]
By the turn of the 20th century, disputes over Rio Grande water were brewing between farmers in southern New Mexico’s Mesilla Valley and those in El Paso, Texas, and neighboring Ciudad Juárez ...
601 Commercial St. NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico: Bernalillo: Built in 1899, the Southwestern Brewery and Ice Company building is one of the few surviving 19th-century commercial buildings in downtown Albuquerque. 424: Ake Site: Catron: 453
Jun. 11—An Albuquerque-based semiconductor manufacturer will get a boost in funding courtesy of the federal CHIPS and Science Act to help expand and hire more people. New Mexico's congressional ...
Bullis, Don, New Mexico: A Biographical Dictionary, 1540–1980, 2 vol, (Los Ranchos de Albuquerque: Rio Grande, 2008) 393 pp. ISBN 978-1-890689-17-9; Chavez, Thomas E. An Illustrated History of New Mexico, 267 pages, University of New Mexico Press 2002, ISBN 0-8263-3051-7; DeMark, Judy, ed. Essays in 20th Century New Mexico History (1994)