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 Turn left on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. and walk one block west.

 Turn left on High St. The establishment at 209 High St. was known as the Freeman Boarding House shortly after World War II. One of its first tenants was David Greenglass, a machinist assigned to the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, New Mexico. On June 2, 1945, Greenglass sold diagrams for the atomic bomb to KGB operative Harry Gold for $500. The exchange occurred in room four of the boarding house. Later arrested by American counterintelligence, Gold ratted out Greenglass, who in turn ratted out his own sister, Ethel Rosenberg, and her husband, Julius. After refusing to testify to their alleged role in this plot of espionage, the Rosenbergs were executed on June 19, 1953. The Freeman Boarding House Apartments is now a quaint bed-and-breakfast known as the Downtown Historic Bed & Breakfast, featuring the Spy House and the Heritage House next door.Across the street, Alhambra Apartments use porthole windows and arabesque designs as a playful reference to Alhambra, a palatial fortress complex 7 miles west of Santa Fe, Spain. The reference seems to end there, since the apartments’ overall look is a mix of Pueblo and California Mission styles, and its interior living spaces were built on an absurdly dwarfish scale.By contrast, the Mrs. T. I. Butts House, at 201 High St., is a robust, no-nonsense construction of wood and cast stone. Built in the late Queen Anne style, the house is named for a principal of the First Ward School in the early 20th century.