Albuquerque's Huning Castle Neighborhoods (Images of America)
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (670 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0738596779 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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. A journalism graduate of the University of Kansas, she grew up on the high plains of northwestern Kansas and accompanied her father on his explorations of the Butterfield Overland Despatch. Jane Mahoney is an Albuquerque freelance writer with a love of rambling and history
About the Author Jane Mahoney is an Albuquerque freelance writer with a love of rambling and history. . A journalism graduate of the University of Kansas, she grew up on the high plains of northwestern Kansas and accompanied her father on his explorations of the Butterfield Overland Despatch
David Piper said Not an ordinary picture book. As an occasional visitor to Albuquerque, I was delighted and informed to read Ms. Mahoney’s new book. It’s so much more than the history of one particular part of town. In fact, it’s a wonderful addition to the history of the entire city for the time period between 1880 and the present.The sequence of chapters isn’t necessarily chronological. Mahoney depicts how and why particular geographic areas in the heart of the city initially developed and then transitioned into their
He took on the roles of merchant, flour mill operator, and land speculator, helping to secure Albuquerque as a division point with a depot, offices, and major repair shops for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway. As a 21-year-old German immigrant, Franz Huning could not have envisioned his future in New Mexico when, in 1849, he signed on as a “bull whacker” for a wagon train heading down the Santa Fe Trail. Huning’s former estate is now home to fine, diverse homes near the Albuquerque Country Club, as well as historic Route 66, Tingley Beach, the zoo, the Little Theatre, and a Christmas Eve luminaria tradition.. From his beginnings as a clerk in Albuquerque’s Old Town, Huning’s entrepreneurial talents flourished over the next half-century. It was a front-row seat to the city’s development after the flood-prone Rio Grande was stabilized. Huning’s 700-acre estate, home to the once-legendary but now-demolished Castle Huning, fronted Albuquerque’s main thoroughfare midway between Old Town and the bustling new downtown one mile east