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Netherwood Park is a residential neighborhood, mainly single family homes with some apartments, townhouses, and condominiums. In addition to its two parks, Netherwood and Urban Forest Park, the Tennis Club of Albuquerque, and One-on-One Fitness provide opportunities for recreation.Our neighborhood has a low crime rate, and relatively few threats from, or demands for, development. The neighborhood association is concerned about keeping the neighborhood clean and addressing pressures to develop the North UNM Golf Course
Neighborhood Associations
Albuquerque Office of Neighborhood Coordination: 505-924-3914Stephani Winklepleck, Neighborhood Liaison: 505-924-3902
Neighborhood Association Maps (City of Albuquerque website)
Neighborhood News: Office of Neighborhood Coordination Newsletter
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
David Broudy: President
505-265-5591
david.broudy@comcast.net
Bill Marietta: Vice President
505-254-1587
bill.marietta@yahoo.com
Carol Renfro: Secretary
505-260-0627
crenfro@unm.edu
Karl Schwerin: Treasurer
505-255-9344
kschwerin9344@msn.com
Susan Hagemann
505-507-3358
shagema@pnm.edu
Chuck Maguire
505-255-4008
candcmaguire@comcast.net
Peter Burton
505-255-4377
pokadotdee@msn.com
Alon Carter
505-265-4675
aloncarter@hotmail.com
Cliff McNary
505-266-0796
mcmill@swcp.com
Neighborhood History
The history of the Netherwood Park neighborhood can be traced back to the late 1890s when Albuquerque had a population of 4000. Three school teachers filed for land under the Homestead Act on the east mesa where the neighborhood is now located. At the time, this was on the outskirts of the city. Each school teacher, Ada Cutler, Ms. Morrow and Ms.Taylor, made a homestead filing and they built a house on a corner common to the three properties making sure each one’s bedroom was on her own filing. The original homestead house, long since gone, was at the north end of what is now Girard.
Ada Cutler left the homestead and moved to Denver and married Edwin Netherwood in 1908. Ada kept the Albuquerque homestead. They moved back to Albuquerque and lived in a house on Silver SE until 1912 when Edwin Netherwood built ten houses on the original homestead. He sold some lots to D. J. Cook who built the house with the arched porch still standing at the end of Girard on the east side. By 1926 the Netherwoods were living in a house they had built near Euclid and Dartmouth. After Edwin Netherwood died later in 1926, Ada abandoned the house for ten years. In 1936 the John Combs family was living in the Netherwood house and Ada lived in a small house behind this house until she died at the end of 1936. The Netherwood grave site is located at Fairview Cemetery on Yale S.E.
After World War II, during the 1950s, there was a lot of residential development in the Miracerros Addition. It included houses built by the Weeks Company on the streets of Richmond and Bryn Mawr. The houses resembled the development on the south side of an unpaved Indian School Road in Summit Park Neighborhood. These houses on Richmond and Bryn Mawr are probably among the oldest in the neighborhood. The Tennis Club of Albuquerque was built just west of Richmond in 1956 and recently celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. Netherwood Park was established during the late 1950s. In the 1960s, the Netherwood Park Residential Addition was added. Most of these houses are custom designed. Schell Court Street was constructed and the excess dirt resulting from the excavation was put onto Netherwood Park creating the existing “hog back ridge”. Also in the 1960s, a tree ordinance was enforced to prevent trees from being planted on the top of the ridge and obscuring the view of the Sandia mountains. The Indian Plaza apartments and the Miracerros town houses were constructed in the 1970s and 1980s.
In 1976 a neighborhood group to the west and south of Indian Plaza was formed to oppose plans for a 400-unit development of the Indian Plaza Tract. Construction had started on curbs and gutters without notice to surrounding neighbors. A lawsuit was filed in Metro Court by the neighbors and after many meetings, court appearances and two trips to the New Mexico Supreme Court, the neighborhood prevailed and the developer was required to reduce the units to approximately one half of the planned units. Another developer wanted to build houses in what is now the Urban Forrest which had been designated as a park in the original 1950 Miracerros plat. The neighbors prevailed in court and convinced the developer to donate the land to a tax exempt organization, La Selva de Albuquerque, which was formed by neighbors as a 501 © (3) corporation. Funds were obtained to develop the Urban Forest Park and at that point La Selva donated the property to the city. La Selva was dissolved in 1984 when the park was constructed.
The Netherwood Park Neighborhood Association was formed in 1987. Today it is bordered on the west by the AMAFCA flood control ditch, on the north by the ditch and I-40 (developed in 1981?) and on the south by Indian School Road (sometimes known as INDIANappolisSCHOOL RacewayOAD). Although Richmond Drive was the original eastern boundary in 1997 the boundary was expanded to the east to abut the Indian Plaza Shopping Center and Texaco Gas Station on Carlisle Boulevard.