Netherwood Park in Albuquerque, NM

Netherwood Park sits just north and northeast of the University of New Mexico, bounded by Indian School Road on the south, Interstate 40 on the north, the North Diversion Channel on the west and Carlisle Boulevard on the east. Ada and Edwin Netherwood platted the first filing in 1913. The layout that survives came later: a 1951 replat traded the original narrow grid lots for larger ones on curving streets and cul-de-sacs, and reserved ground for a park and a school. Builders John H. Hill and Arnold Miller put up most of the houses. Protective covenants adopted that same year still run with the land, and a neighborhood association has represented the area since 1987.

The land came out of four 160-acre federal purchases made in 1896 by Ada Cutler, Alcida Morrow, Martha Taylor and Harriet Jenness, all teachers. Cutler married the developer Edwin Netherwood in Denver and returned with him in 1908; a 164-foot well he sank near Girard and Indian School in 1912 gave the tract its water. Second and third filings followed in 1914 and 1919, the third a small parcel between Girard and Richmond. Ada's nephew Edward Schell took over in 1947 and moved to Albuquerque in 1951.

The original lots were narrow, nominally 25 feet by 148, and the replat erased them. The 1951 covenants barred liquor sales, junk yards, night clubs, skating rinks, pool halls and drive-in theaters, and created an architectural control committee. Street names run to Harvard, Princeton, Morningside, Washington and Cutler, and a storm water detention basin sits at the north end of Princeton Drive.

The reserved ground opened as a scenic-view park in 1965. The association's territory reaches east to the Indian Plaza shopping center on Carlisle Boulevard, and it covers apartments as well as houses in the North University area.