ABQ: Postcard 1914

ALBUQUERQUE

Central High School

Postcard 1914

Wikipedia states that the original Central High School was started on the Plaza in Old Town as an academy. It moved a few times to different buildings in what was then New Town--later to be known as Downtown.

At one point the school was located in a fabulous adobe building, what is now the geneology library in EDo at Edith and Central.

Wikipedia lists the high school moving to Broadway and Central in 1914 in EDo. If that is correct, and the date for the postcard is correct, the card would show the first section of building what is commonly referred to as "old Albuquerque High School." The building would be abandoned and sit vacated for a number of years after a new "Albuquerque High School" was built in 1979 in Matineztown/Santa Barbara.

The buildings at Central and Broadway were converted to apartments and lofts.