Juliana Gutierrez y Chaves Hubbell / Gutierrez-Hubbell House

Juliana Hubbell lived here until 1899, and descendants of the family stayed until the last of them died in 1996. The empty house drew looters, and the property nearly became a restaurant and a subdivision before a citizens' group, the Gutierrez-Hubbell House Alliance, fought for it. Bernalillo County bought it in 2000, restored it for seven years, and opened it to the public as a museum and cultural center in 2007, with sixteen acres of open space around it. The alliance still manages the house for the county.

What the plaque says

Official Scenic Historic Marker Juliana Gutiérrez y Chaves Hubbell 1833-1899 Juliana was a member of two prominent early Spanish families in New Mexico and a descendant of Josefa Baca, the original owner of the land comprising present - day Pajarito. In 1849, at the age of 16, she wed trader and army officer James Lawrence Hubbell through an arranged marriage. The couple built an extensive ranch that supported a mercantile and post office, orchards, vineyards, and pasturelands for livestock, which they raised and traded. With James often away on business, Juliana managed the property, becoming the matriarch of one of the most successful trading families in New Mexico history and helping establish the modern village of Pajarito. Their Ranch is preserved today as the historic Gutiérrez - Hubbell House. Official Scenic Historic Marker Gutiérrez- Hubbell House Constructed in four phases in the Territorial style, the first eight rooms of the house were built from 1855-1859 around a large central hall, an architectural innovation in New Mexico at the time. The design was influenced by Eastern styles admired by Hubbell. The three-room kitchen ell added in the mid-1860s formed a placita, one of the home's key Hispanic architectural elements along with its 27-inch-thick adobe walls, flat roof, vigas, and milled planks. In 1867, two bedrooms were added and a year later the large mercantile wing built north of them. The foot print of the 19-room, rambling structure is still evident. Thirteen of the rooms remain.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Petroglyph National Monument — 11 mi
  Some 24,000 images pecked into the dark basalt of Albuquerque's West Mesa, protected in 1990 and then crossed by a city boulevard.

More markers nearby

• Josefa Baca / Pajarito Land Grant — steps away
• Pajarito — steps away
• Los Padillas — 2.2 mi
• Old Armijo School — 4.9 mi