These are the resources we use time and time again. We compiled this list to assist Four Hills Village residents in their home history research. We keep this list updated regularly as resources come and go and to ensure that our neighbors have the most up to date information available to them. We hope to eventually expand this list to cover general Modernism architecture and historically significant homewares.
New Mexico Home History
The Albuquerque Library has some of our best resources for home history. If you are ready to start learning about your home’s history be prepared to make use of your library card!
The digital newspaper archive can be browsed online. We suggest using the advanced search options to look up the names and addresses in Four Hills. Sometime you will find announcements, home highlights, realty ads and articles written about original and former residents.
The Genealogy Department at Main Library is another great resource for library card holders interested in their home history. This department consists of a research room on the second floor where users can access more in-depth data bases and archives without purchasing a subscription. They are a free perk of the library system however they are only accessible in person.
The Special Collections Library is a primary resource for research at Four Hills Village Proper Project. The hold a complete collection of 1960s phonebooks which are great for confirming the listed residents from any point in time. They also carry the full hard copy collection of Albuquerque Progress, a bi-monthly publication put out by Albuquerque National bank from 1934 to 1965.
The Albuquerque Progress is a was published by Albuquerque National Bank from 1934 to 1965. It was designed to record Albuquerque's growth and to promote the city to potential investors and residents. The magazine’s black and white photos are often the best visual record we can locate of individual structures at the time they were first built. They can be browsed online and hard copies can be found at the Spcial Collections Library.
New Mexico Architecture Magazine was published bi-monthly between 1959 and 1991. It served as the official publication of the New Mexico Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
Modern Albuquerque is a local non-profit that hosts their own list of resources which we linked here. We suggest checking them out!
The 2013 a survey of Mid-Century Modernist Architectural Resources was produced for the city of Albuquerque. It documents several significant examples of modernism throughout Albuquerque. It touches on Four Hills Village but ultimately the surveyors ran out of time and funds and suggested to the city that further research be completed for Four Hills and that is could be a potential candidate for a historic district.
Bernalillo County Public Records is a good place to go to learn about previous owners through title history. It is worth noting that there are some large gaps in their information. When we called the department in hopes locate the hard copies of the missing records we were informed that boxes of documents which covered Four Hills history had been thrown away.
Bernalillo County Treasurer is a resources for searching tax records associated with your home. The property tax search is provided as a public service.
Office if the New Mexico State Historian, Rob Martinez, who has been serving since 2019.