Aldo Leopold Neighborhood Historic District
a.k.a. Huning Place Addition
105-135 Fourteenth St., SW, Albuquerque, NMThe Huning Place addition, platted in 1913, was the first subdivision in Albuquerque. It was developed between 1913 and 1919, and features Craftsman/Bungalow style houses.
Platted in 1913 as the first subdivided portion of 400-acre Franz Huning estate that straddled the western boundary of the Original Townsite of New Albuquerque; the northernmost block of the three-block Huning Place Addition was lined with residences by 1920.
Constructed within a period of just six years, all of the houses lining the one hundred block of South Fourteenth Street embodied a modest variety of the elements associated with the Craftsman/Bungalow style. Complementing their uniformity of stylistic details were their immediate surroundings, a landscape comprised of contiguous front yard lawns with flowerbeds and shade trees and small back yard gardens, orchards and grapevines. This composition in which Craftsman/Bungalow style houses on standardized suburban lots were surrounded with a verdant landscape represented an idealization of
the Craftsman movement as its proponents reacted to the industrialization of the era. While many contemporary
neighborhoods also reflected efforts to achieve a natural setting, the Huning Place Addition was notably successful. In part, because of its location and the attitudes toward nature embraced by its early residents, including Aldo Leopold, then an employee of the United States Forest Service. The result was that the district assumed, and now retains, the appearance of the ideal Craftsman/Bungalow neighborhood, a character that its current residents seek to maintain. Illustrative of patterns of suburban growth in Albuquerque during the 1910s, with its houses embracing variations on the Craftsman/Bungalow style, and with its association with Aldo Leopold during its period of significance.
Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America’s historic and archeological resources.