Armijo Block
Photographer
Cobb Studio
Dateca. 1890
Mediumglass plate negative
Dimensions5 × 7 3/4 in. (12.7 × 19.7 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Walter C. Haussamen
Object numberPA1990.013.085.A
DescriptionN.T. Armijo Building located at 201-207 West Railroad Avenue in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The ground floor housed the Bank of Commerce and the upper floors housed the New York Life Insurance Company and Law Offices of Frank W. Clancy and P. Owen. The building has three-floors and is made of stone. The ground floor large storefront windows, the second-floor has dome arched windows, and the top floor has standard rectangular windows. There is a cement sidewalk surrounding the building and is on the corner of two dirt roads. Men are gathered in clusters outside various storefronts on the sidewalk. Railroad Avenue's name was changed around 1908 to what is now Central Avenue. Central Avenue also overlaps with the historic Route 66.
The Armijo House burned down in the 1890s.
Emulsion deterioration is occurring on the glass plate causing distortion and emulsion loss. The bottom left corner of the glass plate is broken.
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