Nob Hill in Albuquerque, NM

Nob Hill is a historic Albuquerque neighborhood east of the University of New Mexico, running from Lomas Boulevard south to Garfield Avenue and Zuni Road, and from Girard Boulevard east to Washington Street. Six residential additions were laid out here between the 1900s and the 1940s, among them D.K.B. Sellers' University Heights and William Leverett's Monte Vista; four National Register historic districts now cover much of the area. Central Avenue, the old Route 66 alignment, runs through the middle as a commercial spine anchored by the 1947 Nob Hill Business Center and the Lobo Theater. City bus routes run along Central and Zuni.

Sellers coined the name while pitching a shopping center at Central and Carlisle, well before anyone drew a boundary around the blocks it now covers. Route 66 was routed down Central in 1937, and auto courts followed: El Oriente Court, the Modern Auto Court, the De Anza Motor Lodge.

Monte Vista, platted in 1926, wraps an irregular street pattern around diagonal boulevards and shares a National Register district with College View. Broadmoor came later, platted in 1945 and largely built out by 1955; its detached houses sit on curving streets drawn to slow traffic, most of them unstyled or in regional idioms like Pueblo Revival, and it reached the state and national registers in 2022. Granada Heights, Mesa Grande and the eastern end of University Heights fill in the rest.

The Nob Hill Neighborhood Association, formed in 1987, works on historic preservation, planning, tree canopy restoration and public safety.

Central carries the transit: the 66 bus runs the length of the district, the 97 covers Zuni along the southern edge, and Rapid Ride express service stops at Central and Carlisle. Monte Vista Elementary School has served the area since 1930.