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Hilario Lopez House

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Hilario Lopez House, Albuquerque NM
Hilario Lopez House, Albuquerque NM

The Hilario Lopez House is a historic house in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was built around 1907 by Hilario Lopez, who worked as a carpenter for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. The house was added to the New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties in 1979 and the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.The house is an example of New Mexico vernacular architecture, with adobe walls and a corrugated metal roof. The house has a hipped roof with exposed rafters and a shed-roofed wooden porch supported by six turned columns. The front elevation is symmetrical with two wood-framed sash windows flanking the main entrance door. The front windows and transom over the door have ornamental diamond panes. There is also a small bay window on the south side of the house.

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Hilario Lopez House
15th Street Northwest, Albuquerque Old Town

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15th Street Northwest 344
87104 Albuquerque, Old Town
New Mexico, United States
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