Hope's European Hotel at First and Railroad Avenue
Photographer
Cobb Studio
Dateca. 1885
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions8 × 7 1/8 in. (20.3 × 18.1 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Walter C. Haussamen
Object numberPA1990.013.002
DescriptionA street scene looking south along the west side of the 100 block of South First Street (formerly Front Street), from the northeast corner of Railroad Avenue in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Hope's European Hotel (later Sturges Hotel, and possibly earlier Madden Hotel) is located on the corner in a wood paneled building with a large porch. An ox team is gathered in the foreground resting around parked wagons in the dirt road. A horse-drawn trolly car is passing through the street in front of the hotel and other business fronts. Railroad Avenue is now called Central Avenue and runs east to west through downtown. Albuquerque. "Railroad Avenue" came from being located along the city's railway and depot. The name was changed between 1907 and 1908. Central Avenue also overlaps with sections of the historic Route 66 Highway.
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