| Albuquerque's Huning Castle Neighborhoods Contributor(s): Mahoney, Jane (Author) |
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ISBN: 0738596779 ISBN-13: 9780738596778 Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC) OUR PRICE: $22.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - Southwest (az, Nm, Ok, Tx) |
| Dewey: 978 |
| LCCN: 2012955499 |
| Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing) |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.5" W x 9.1" (0.70 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Locality - Albuquerque, New Mexico - Geographic Orientation - New Mexico - Cultural Region - Southwest U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. From his beginnings as a clerk in Albuquerque s Old Town, Huning s entrepreneurial talents flourished over the next half-century. 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. 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. It was a front-row seat to the city s development after the flood-prone Rio Grande was stabilized. 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." |
Contributor Bio(s): Mahoney, Jane: - 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. |