509/511 High Street SE

Franz Huning platted this ground in April 1880, the same month the railroad arrived. It was the first addition to Albuquerque's original townsite, and that timing explains everything about it. Look at Huning Highland homes for sale and you're looking at brick and wood frame, not adobe. The people who bought here came from back east, ordered house parts out of catalogs, and had them shipped in on the train they'd just followed west.What the houses are actually likeQueen Anne, Italianate, folk Victorian, a run of 1920s bungalows, some Prairie School, a little Pueblo Revival mixed in later. Most of what stands went up between the 1880s and the 1920s. The Horner House on High Street dates to 1881 and is generally called the oldest in the district.Lots are small and the grid is tight. Houses sit close to the sidewalk with real front porches, and a lot of them are served by an alley out back rather than a driveway. Garages are the exception. Ceilings run high, floors are usually wood, and th...