3801 Palomas Drive NE

Altamont sits in the Northeast Heights, south of Montgomery and roughly between San Mateo and Louisiana. It's one of the few Albuquerque subdivisions where the builder's name still moves the needle. Nearly all of the Altamont homes for sale on this page were put up by Mossman-Gladden between the late 1950s and the early 1960s, and that matters more than it sounds. Fred Mossman built over 7,500 houses in this city from the late forties into the early eighties, per UNM's Albuquerque Modernism project. Altamont was the first of the big ones. It set the pattern the rest of them copied.You can spot the blocks without a map. Streets curve instead of running straight. The trees are sixty-odd years old and on some stretches they meet overhead. And the roofs are pitched, which sounds like nothing until you've spent a Saturday looking at Albuquerque houses from the same decade, almost every one of them flat.The houses themselvesThree bedrooms, one story, brick or brick-and-stucco. UNM puts the c...