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1920, E.A. Harrison and C.F.W. Felt. 1100 2nd St. SW, roughly bounded by 1st and 2nd Sts. to the west and the BNSF rail line to the east.
  • Fire Station Lead (Photograph by Regina N. Emmer)

The fire station is an outlier in the industrial landscape that characterizes the AT&SF Locomotive Shops. Its irregular facing of red sandstone, crenellated parapet, and a battered tower with its hipped red-tile roof mediate the California Mission and Pueblo styles and clearly associated the station architecturally with the AT&SF Depot and Alvarado Hotel to its immediate north, rather than with the locomotive buildings it served to the south.

After the City of Albuquerque purchased the AT&SF Locomotive Shops complex in 2007, it contracted Los Angeles-based Eric Owen Moss Architects and the developer Samitaur Constructs in 2012 to redevelop the site. The fire station is currently closed to the public, but is slated to become accessible as redevelopment continues.

References

Brooker, Kathleen Ann. “Railroad Depots in New Mexico: Southwestern Styles and the Masonry Tradition. Master's thesis, University of New Mexico, 1981.

Dodge, William A., Maryellen Hennessy, Edgar Bolson, and Petra Morris, “Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Locomotive Shops,” Bernalillo County, New Mexico. National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, 2014. National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.

Moses, Nalina. “Going the Extra Yards.” AIArchitect, August 8, 2014.

Wilson, Chris. “The Historic Railroad Buildings of Albuquerque: An Assessment of Significance.” Prepared for the Redevelopment Division, Planning Department, City of Albuquerque, 1986.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Regina N. Emmer
Coordinator: 
Christopher C. Mead
Regina N. Emmer
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Timeline

  • 1920

    Built

  • 2007

    Listed on the National Register of Historic Places

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Citation

Regina N. Emmer, "Fire Station", [Albuquerque, New Mexico], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/NM-01-001-0091-05.

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