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Huning Highlands Historic District, Albuquerque — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Albuquerque's first residential subdivision, Huning Highlands still fills its blocks with Victorian and early 20th-century houses.
About Huning Highlands Historic District
Where to stay in Huning Highlands Historic District
Each area has its own feel; here's who each one suits.
Iron Avenue and Locust Street bracket a grid of houses, not a hotel strip. The Huning Highlands blocks were laid out for families, and the Victorian frontages that earned the district its listing on the National Register of Historic Places still do the same work. Huning Highlands keeps porches instead of lobbies.
Downtown Albuquerque sits just across the Burlington Northern Santa Fe tracks to the west, so anyone wanting a full room list can walk over and still sleep within reach of these streets.
About Huning Highlands Historic District
What are the main landmarks in Huning Highlands Historic District?
Huning Highlands counts its landmarks house by house. Albuquerque's first residential subdivision left a landmark record that names the Hudson House, the Henry Mann House, the Hilario Lopez House and the Delfina Gurule House, single-family survivors of the years that filled these blocks. Two more sit on the same roll.
The Werner-Gilchrist House and the William J. Leverett House stand among the Victorian and early 20th-century frontages that carried the district onto the National Register of Historic Places.
What is the history of Huning Highlands Historic District?
Albuquerque's first residential subdivision started here. Lots went up mostly between the 1880s and the 1920s, and the Victorian and early 20th-century houses raised in those years still give Huning Highlands its density of period frontages. Recognition followed much later.
The New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties took the district in 1976, and the National Register of Historic Places added it in 1978.
Where is Huning Highlands Historic District?
About a third of a square mile, the district runs from the Burlington Northern Santa Fe tracks east to Locust Street and south to Iron Avenue.
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Updated September 2026