Rosenwald Building

	Rosenwald Building
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	N.M. State Register of Cultural Properties
	Albuquerque Historic Landmark
	Rosenwald Building, May 2010
Location	320 Central Avenue SW,; Albuquerque, New Mexico
Coordinates	35°05′03″N106°39′05″W / 35.08417°N 106.65139°W Coordinates: 35°05′03″N106°39′05″W / 35.08417°N 106.65139°W
Built	1910
Architect	Henry Trost
NRHP reference #	78001806 [1]
NMSRCP #	588
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	June 29, 1978
Designated NMSRCP	January 20, 1978 [2]

Last updated September 29, 2019

The Rosenwald Building is a historic building located in Downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico. Designed by Henry Trost of the El Paso firm of Trost & Trost and built in 1910, it was the first reinforced concrete building in the city.^[3] It is a massive three-story building with a two-story recessed entrance and simple geometric ornamentation. The building was added to the New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties ^[4] and the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.^[1]

Downtown Albuquerque Neighborhood of Albuquerque

Downtown Albuquerque is the central business district of Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is where a significant number of the city's highrise buildings are located, and is the center of government and business for the Greater Albuquerque metropolitan region.

Albuquerque, also known locally as Duke City and abbreviated as ABQ, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico and the 32nd-most populous city in the United States, with a census-estimated population of 558,545 in 2017. It is the principal city of the Albuquerque metropolitan area, which has 915,927 residents as of July 2018. Albuquerque's Metropolitan statistical area is the 60th-largest in the United States. The Albuquerque MSA population includes the cities of Rio Rancho, Bernalillo, Placitas, Corrales, Los Lunas, Belen, and Bosque Farms, and forms part of the larger Albuquerque–Santa Fe–Las Vegas combined statistical area, with a total population of 1,171,991 in 2016.

New Mexico is a state in the Southwestern region of the United States of America; its capital and cultural center is Santa Fe, which was founded in 1610 as capital of Nuevo México, while its largest city is Albuquerque with its accompanying metropolitan area. It is one of the Mountain States and shares the Four Corners region with Utah, Colorado, and Arizona; its other neighboring states are Oklahoma to the northeast, Texas to the east-southeast, and the Mexican states of Chihuahua to the south and Sonora to the southwest. With a population around two million, New Mexico is the 36th state by population. With a total area of 121,592 sq mi (314,920 km²), it is the fifth-largest and sixth-least densely populated of the 50 states. Due to their geographic locations, northern and eastern New Mexico exhibit a colder, alpine climate, while western and southern New Mexico exhibit a warmer, arid climate.

Originally the entire 42,000-square-foot^[5] building was occupied by Aron and Edward Rosenwald's flagship department store, which was praised by the Albuquerque Journal as "the handsomest, most up-to-date, and most complete department store in the southwest" upon opening. McLellan Stores moved into the ground floor in 1927, remaining there for about 50 years. The Rosenwald Building was renovated in 1981 and the upper floors were converted to office space.^[3] The city of Albuquerque bought two floors of the building in 2008.^[6]

A department store is a retail establishment offering a wide range of consumer goods in different product categories known as "departments". In modern major cities, the department store made a dramatic appearance in the middle of the 19th century, and permanently reshaped shopping habits, and the definition of service and luxury. Similar developments were under way in London, in Paris and in New York.

The Albuquerque Journal is the largest newspaper in the U.S. state of New Mexico.

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References

1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
↑ "New Mexico State and National Registers". New Mexico Historic Preservation Commission. Retrieved 2013-03-13.
1 2 "Rosenwald Building". City of Albuquerque Planning Department. Archived from the original on 21 October 2012. Retrieved 3 September 2012.
↑ "Properties by County" (PDF). New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 29 April 2011.
↑ "Architecture firm buys Rosenwald Building". Albuquerque Journal. NM. June 10, 1997. p. D5.
↑ "Museums To Join at Downtown Site". Albuquerque Journal. NM. February 15, 2008. p. D2.

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[nris-1] 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.

[NMSRCP_list-2] "New Mexico State and National Registers". New Mexico Historic Preservation Commission. Retrieved 2013-03-13.

[planning-3] 1 2 "Rosenwald Building". City of Albuquerque Planning Department. Archived from the original on 21 October 2012. Retrieved 3 September 2012.

[4] "Properties by County" (PDF). New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 29 April 2011.

[5] "Architecture firm buys Rosenwald Building". Albuquerque Journal. NM. June 10, 1997. p. D5.

[6] "Museums To Join at Downtown Site". Albuquerque Journal. NM. February 15, 2008. p. D2.