Downtown Neighborhood, Albuquerque

The Fourth Ward Historic District is a historic district in Albuquerque, New Mexico which encompasses an area between Downtown and Old Town which is roughly bounded by Central Avenue, 8th Street and Keleher Avenue, Lomas Boulevard, and 15th Street. It is named for its location in the city's former fourth political ward. The district is almost entirely residential and developed at a "leisurely pace" between the 1880s and 1930s. As a result, it includes houses in a wide variety of sizes and styles including Queen Anne, Italianate, Tudor, Dutch Colonial, Prairie School, Mediterranean, Pueblo, Territorial, Mission, and Bungalow. The district was added to the New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties in 1979 and the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.The district includes two properties which are also individually listed on the National Register, the J. H. O'Rielly House and Berthold Spitz House.

The Berthold Spitz House is a historic house in Albuquerque, New Mexico, which is significant as the city's best example of Prairie School architecture. It was built around 1910 by Berthold Spitz (c. 1860–1933) and his wife Fannie Schutz Spitz (1873–1943). Berthold was a German Jewish merchant who was born in Bohemia (present-day Czech Republic) and immigrated to Albuquerque around 1880. He ran a successful dry goods business and made a few forays into local politics before being appointed as the city's postmaster in 1921. Fannie grew up in El Paso and was notable as the inventor of the first commercial pine nut shelling machine. She was described by the Albuquerque Journal as "the greatest known authority on the piñon nut and its possibilities". The house was designed by Henry C. Trost of the El Paso firm of Trost & Trost. It was listed on the New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties in 1975 and the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.The house is a two-story masonry building with a broadly overhanging hipped roof. The design is relatively simple and lacks the heavy ornamentation of some of Trost's other Prairie houses, including his own residence in El Paso. The Spitz House has stuccoed walls with dark wooden trim around the casement windows and a projecting sill course on the second floor. The front elevation is symmetrical, with a hipped entrance porch, while the rear has an asymmetrical two-story projection and less regular window patterns.

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.

The Charles LeFeber House is a historic house in the Downtown Neighborhood of Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was built in 1909 and was the home of Charles A. LeFeber (c. 1883–1957), a local contractor, until his death. LeFeber probably built the house himself. It was listed on the New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties in 1979 and the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.The house is notable for its unusual architecture. It is an eclectic cottage with "touches of Tudor Revival styling", and does not resemble any other designs that were popular at the time. In particular, it has a very unusual gable roof with sloped ends and an angled porch roof supported by two Doric columns. The house originally had clapboard siding but is now stuccoed.

The Aldo Leopold Neighborhood Historic District is a historic district in Albuquerque, New Mexico, which comprises a single block on the west side of 14th Street immediately south of Central Avenue. It is notable for its Craftsman/Bungalow-style houses and as the residence of noted naturalist Aldo Leopold. The district makes up the northernmost section of the Huning Place addition, which was platted in 1913 from a section of the large estate formerly belonging to merchant Franz Huning. The eight houses in the district, all of which are contributing properties, were built between 1913 and 1920. The district was added to the New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties and the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. Aldo Leopold's house at 135 14th St. is also individually listed on the State Register with reference number 1786.

Castle Apartments was a historic apartment building in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, which was destroyed by fire in 2009. It was located on the southeast corner of 15th Street and Central Avenue, roughly halfway between Downtown and Old Town, and took its name from the Huning Castle mansion, which originally stood on the other side of 15th Street. Built in 1922, it was a two-story, U-shaped building with a central courtyard and 20 residential units ranging in size from 600 to 750 square feet. The architects were Trost & Trost of El Paso, with George P. Hill. The Castle Apartments were added to the New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties in 1985 and the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

Park Plaza Condominiums is a residential high-rise building in Albuquerque, New Mexico. At 160 feet (49 m) in height it is the 15th-tallest building in the city, as well as the tallest residential building in New Mexico. The 14-story tower originally consisted of rental units but was converted to condominiums in 1979. It is located one block south of Central Avenue, just west of Downtown. Park Plaza was constructed in 1963–4 at a cost of $2.5 million. With 144 one- and two-bedroom luxury apartments, it was the largest apartment complex in Albuquerque at the time and was described in a contemporary advertisement as "the Southwest's most beautiful and modern apartment building". Following the conversion to condos, many of the units have been renovated by their owners or combined to form larger units.

The Washington Apartments are a historic apartment complex in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The property is notable as a well-preserved example of early 20th-century apartment construction in the city, along with the Eller Apartments and Newlander Apartments. The apartments were built in 1916 by local businessman James D. Eakin and, as of 1981, had remained relatively unaltered. The complex is listed in the New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties and the National Register of Historic Places.

The Chester Carnes House is a historic house in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was built in 1923 by Lembke Construction for Chester Carnes, an optometrist who was the president of the New Mexico Optometric Association, his wife Helen, and their three sons. It was designed in the Mediterranean Revival architectural style. It was listed on the New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties in 1979 and the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

The Delfina Gurule House is a historic house in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was built by Delfina Gurule (1883–1979), who bought the lot in 1912 from Dolores Otero Burg, the daughter of former Congressional delegate Mariano S. Otero. The house was probably built shortly afterward, and Gurule lived there until her death in 1979. The building 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 original section of the house is T-shaped and has a symmetrical three-bay front elevation with a shed-roofed wooden porch. The main roof consists of a hipped front section intersecting a gabled rear section. The windows in the front of the house are set in wooden frames, while those on the other sides of the house are set directly in the adobe walls with a wooden lintel. An addition was constructed on the north side of the house in the 1980s.

The J. H. O'Rielly House is a historic Queen Anne style home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was built around 1904 by H. H. Tilton, a local real estate developer, and was originally rented to J. H. O'Rielly, who owned a drugstore and was also a manager at the Occidental Life Insurance Company. O'Rielly bought the house in 1909 and continued to live there until 1917. The house was added to the New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties in 1977 and the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.The O'Rielly House is a two-story, hip-roofed building with a brick first floor and shingled frame second floor. It is rectangular in plan, with bay windows on the north and west elevations on either side of a corner porch which is oriented at 45 degrees to the rest of the house. The windows are wood-framed double-hung units; those on the first floor are set in arched openings with stone sills and some have ornamental stained glass panes. A two-story frame addition was constructed at the rear of the house sometime in the 1920s.

The Henry Mann House is a historic house in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was built in 1905 by Henry Mann, who operated a market garden near Old Town with his brothers. The house cost $2,700 and the contractor was Wallace Hesselden, who also completed the John Pearce House the same year. The property 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 a one-and-a-half-story brick building with modest Queen Anne elements. The house has a complex roofline, with a high Dutch gable over the main body of the house and smaller intersecting gables on both street-facing elevations. The lower gable ends are shingled and decorated with radiating spindles at each peak. The ground-floor windows are 1-over-1 wooden sash windows set in arched openings. The house also has shed-roofed front and rear porches with turned wooden posts.