The Albuquerque Conservation Association

Father Ferdinand Troy arrived in New Mexico Territory the same year as the railroad. During his tenure here as a Jesuit priest he traveled on the back of a burro and in an airplane. Had he lived a few more years he might have flown to Rome again in a jet. But he left Old Albuquerque’s San Felipe de Neri the last time in his life one morning by motorbus and was killed that night by a car in front of the Alameda church – the church he and parishioners had built over twenty years before.

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Joe Sabatini, Cindy Carson, Ann Carson, Jerry Widdison

Some members at the monthly meeting in Board President Ann Carson’s beautifully restored Huning Highland home.  (Jerry Widdison, Chan Graham, Diane Souder and Ann Carson.)

The picturesque English cottage style service station was built by the Continental Oil Company (Conoco) in 1937. It was that same year that Route 66 was rerouted to an east-west alignment through Albuquerque. Conoco retained ownership until 1961 when the station became part of Horn Oil Company’s successful local chain. H.B. and Lucille Horn generously donated the station to TACA in 1997. It serves as the TACA office, meeting place and houses and extensive collection of publications related to historic preservation.

Cover art by Gale Waddell

Fred Harvey’s Alvarado Hotel. The rise and demise and of this and other Albuquerque landmarks are chronicled in this book, written by Carleen Lazzell and Melissa Payne.

Published by the Historical Publishing Network in 2007, copies are available for sale and all proceeds benefit TACA.  Email susjon7@netzero.net to reserve a copy.