Hodgin Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“Hodgin Hall, previously known at various times as the University Building, Main Building, or Administration Building, is a historic building on the University of New Mexico campus in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Completed in 1892, it was the first building constructed on the UNM campus and the university's only building for almost a decade.”
Wikipedia article Hodgin Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 159 National Register listings published here for Bernalillo County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. University of New Mexico campus, Albuquerque Mountain, 87106
When was it listed? January 1978
Category. building
Census division. Albuquerque
Architectural style. Pueblo Revival Style architecture, Richardsonian Romanesque
National Register reference number. 78001803 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

89 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Hodgin Hall between 1993 and 2020, burning about 837 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 7 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	66
Debris and open burning	7
Arson/incendiarism	7
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 2009	Natural	2.5 acres	Southern Pueblos Agency	TANK
26 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	ROSE
21 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	BRAV0
5 August 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	RIVERSIDE
20 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	ROCKY RIDGE
11 August 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Southern Pueblos Agency	BOUNDARY
7 July 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	ANNE
6 July 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	JOY

Every fire recorded in Bernalillo County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Hodgin Hall: 15 unknowns, 3 producers, 1 prospect, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Magnesite, Volcanic Materials, Pumice. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
6026 North Second St. Plant	Pumice	Unknown
American Gypsum Plant	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Producer
Mitchell Prospect	Magnesite	Prospect
Name Unknown Scoria Deposit	Volcanic Materials	Occurrence	Scoria
Albuquerque Gravel Prods.Co.Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Carmony Road Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit 60-60-F	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit 60-61-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Montgomery Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Osuna	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Bernalillo County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Art Annex	under 500 feet	1988
Sara Raynolds Hall	under 500 feet	1988
Cottage Bakery	under 500 feet	1993
Pig 'n Calf Lunch	0.1 miles	1994
Estufa	0.2 miles	1988
Silver Hill Historic District	0.2 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78001803 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Bernalillo County	All 159 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.