New hotel in a historic site will open this fall

The Hotel Parq Central will open on the site of the historic Memorial Hospital on Route 66 near downtown Albuquerque, according to a news release at Hotel Interactive.

Memorial Hospital was built on 806 Central Ave. in 1926 — the same year that Route 66 was certified — and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Memorial Hospital closed in 1982.

A team of architects and contractors sought to keep the historic elements of the building as much as possible:

The front entrance’s “grand staircase” has been restored and the interior columns are finished with handmade New Mexico tile.  A rooftop “Apothecary Bar” with skyline and mountain views, and where guests can sip classic 1920s-themed cocktails and snack on tapas, showcases antique apothecary bottles and a wall decoupaged with vintage-era medicinal labels.

Original clay tiles have been used throughout the hotel and in the rooms (18 of which are suites), and the working features of the 1926-era windows were salvaged, including the frames, sashes, and jams as well as the decorative tile below.

An artist’s rendering of the renovated former hospital is above.

Hotel Parq Central, according to the news release, will feature conference rooms, business center, exercise room, massage services, outdoor dining plaza, LCD flat-screen TVs, and high-quality linens and bath products.  Hotel Parq Central also will maintain three gardens.  It will offer 74 rooms for overnight guests.

Rates will begin at $139 a night, and include free parking, gourmet continental breakfast, free Wi-Fi, and complimentary coffee or tea service.

Hotel Parq Central didn’t provide a firm date for its opening, only that it will be operating when the International Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta begins on Oct. 2-10.

Hotel Parq Central has a bare-bones website here.

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