Romero, Felipe, House
7522 Edith Blvd., NE, Albuquerque, NMThe Felipe Romero House is an excellent local example of a minimally altered small turn-of-the-century adobe house; nothing has been changed on the exterior and only a bathroom and a fireplace have been added to the interior. It is the only small ca. 1900 home left intact on Edith Boulevard and one of the few in the city.
After the flood of 1903 wiped out Felipe Romero's house farther west in the valley, he bought a small adobe on the high ground and added two rooms to the north. Romero, whom his descendants trace back to the 17th century when he came to New Mexico as a soldier in Onate's army, worked as a freighter to Sonora, Mexico while his wife Felicita Sena farmed and raised chickens and pigs. They raised mostly onions which the family would trade for staples.
Romero's son, Ralph, lived in the house after his parents' deaths. He sold it to its present owners in the 1970s. They added the fireplace and modernized the utility systems.
Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
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