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2002 Most Endangered
- Most Endangered Places in New Mexico 2002
- White Sands National Monument Visitor Center, Otero
- Carrizozo Woman's Club, Lincoln
- D.D. Monroe Civic Building, Union
- New Mexico Public Welfare Building (The Villagra Building), Santa Fe
- The Whittlesey House, Bernalillo
- Edgewood Schoolhouse, Santa Fe
- Glorieta Battlefield, Santa Fe
- Castaneda Hotel, San Miguel
- The Hondo Valley, Lincoln
- Las Cruces Downtown Main Street, Dona Ana
The Whittlesey House, Bernalillo
Significance: The 1903 Whittlesey House, home of the Albuquerque Press Club, is a wood-framed "log" house modeled on a Scandinavian hunting lodge and shares many design elements with El Tovar, the Whittlesey-designed lodge at the Grand Canyon. Some of its many unique elements are the use of tree trunks as vertical supports, the walls both inside and out are paneled with bark-covered split logs and a wraparound wooden porch faces Highland Park. Its history as a meeting place is rich with involvement in politics and social affairs, a history that continues to this day. The Huning Highlands Neighborhood Association and several private organizations meet here, and it is the site of press conferences, literary and social events such as weddings, birthday parties and celebrations of the university and local businesses. Much Albuquerque history of the past century and the people who made that history have been associated with the Whittlesey House.
Threat: The Whittlesey House is failing structurally and in need of full restoration with major structural repairs. Plans are to preserve it as a historical structure and working museum.
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