Three stories of logs and stone make up the Whittlesey House, tucked into the Huning Highlands of Albuquerque and now home to the Albuquerque Press Club. Built in 1903 by architect Charles Frederick Whittlesey, who briefly lived here with his family, the house now houses the Albuquerque Press Club. Its rustic form is based on Norwegian Vernacular architecture, a highly unusual choice for New Mexico, and the heavy logs and stone give it a surprisingly northern character.
Whittlesey designed and built this house while he was in town working on the Alvarado Hotel and originally intended it as a communal residence for the clerks and draftsmen at his office, even naming it “Bungalow Barracks. Contemporary descriptions envisioned six comfortable bedrooms and a large modern bathroom, accommodating twelve men, each fellow rooming with his particular chum. Over the years the community has recognized the house’s significance: it was added to the New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties in 1975, listed as a contributing property in the Huning Highlands Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, and designated an Albuquerque city landmark in 1979.
Heavy logs and stone carry the Nordic-inspired details of a house Whittlesey once called Bungalow Barracks.