Visiting Historic Nob Hill, on Route 66, in Albuquerque, New Mexico

Today, Eric and I are visiting Nob Hill in eastern Albuquerque.  In the late 1800s and early 1900s the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe rail line brought business and people to the undeveloped eastern mesa of Albuquerque.  With the anticipated construction of Route 66 to Albuquerque in the late 1930s, the local business community prepared to offer much needed services to the traveling public,

Nob Hill became Albuquerque's first suburb.  It's heyday came to an abrupt end when Interstate 40 rerouted travelers north of Route 66 in the late 1960s.. Fortunately, many of the businesses built in the late 1930s through the 1950s have been restored and re-purposed.

One of the Historic

Nob Hill banners.

De Anza Motor Lodge, known
fine dining, Zuni Jewelry, &
comfortable motel rooms, was
listed on the Register of 
Historic Places in 2004.

Jones Motor Company came

to Nob Hill in 1939.

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

It is now Kelly's

Brew Pub.

Completed in 1947, Nob Hill

Business Center housed second

hand stores after Interstate 40

was built.

It was carefully restored in 1984.

The 1950s era Hiway House
Motel was listed on the
National Register of Historic
Places in 1998.

The Lobo Theater, which opened

in 1938, is now Calvary Nob

 Hill Christian Church.

Nob Hill is home to
stores with eclectic
exteriors.

The Monte Vista Fire Station,

built in 1936 with Works Progress

Administration funding, is now the

Monte Vista Restaurant & Bar.

Satellite Coffee's unique
exterior is listed as a
roadside oddity on
RoadsideAmerica.com.

Loving Vegan

Thinking of you, Lisa T.

Eric has a roadside oddity he wants to show me on Monte Vista Boulevard.  Off we go....