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Albuquerque’s Huning Castle Neighborhoods (Images of America)

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As a 21-year-old German immigrant, Franz Huning may just no longer have envisioned his future in New Mexico when, in 1849, he signed on as a “bull whacker” for a wagon train heading down the Santa Fe Trail. From his beginnings as a clerk in Albuquerque’s Old The town, Huning’s entrepreneurial talents flourished over the following half-century. He took at the roles of merchant, flour mill operator, and land speculator, helping to safe Albuquerque as a division point with a depot, offices, and major repair stores for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway. Huning’s 700-acre estate, home to the once-legendary but now-demolished Castle Huning, fronted Albuquerque’s main thoroughfare midway between Old The town and the bustling new downtown one mile east. It used to be a front-row seat to town’s development after the flood-prone Rio Grande used to be stabilized. Huning’s former estate is now home to fine, diverse homes near the Albuquerque Country Club, in addition to historic Route 66, Tingley Beach, the zoo, the Little Theatre, and a Christmas Eve luminaria tradition.

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