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 Turn left on Park Ave. and pause at 8 o’clock on the roundabout. At 3 o’clock, The Hotel Blue first opened as Downtowner Motor Inn in 1965 and was given its current name in the late 1990s, when it was renovated into a boutique hotel with an Art Deco theme. Across the street to the west is Robinson Park, the city’s first outside of Old Town. A modest memorial in the park describes an incident involving former Indian scout John Braden. During a fiesta parade here in 1896, someone threw a firecracker into Braden’s horse-drawn wagon, which was packed with ammunition. (To clarify: the “ammunition” was for a fireworks display.) As it detonated, he managed to steer his startled horses away from the crowd, sacrificing his life to save many others. He now rests in an unmarked grave in Fairview Cemetery (ssss1). The park also hosts the Downtown Growers’ Market on Saturday mornings, June–October. For more information, visit downtowngrowers.com.

 Continue west on Park Ave. The prairie-style home on the left is the Milne House, built in 1917. John Milne served as superintendent of Albuquerque public schools from 1911 until his death in 1956. The house is now headquarters for the Southwest Network for Environmental Justice.A pair of buildings ahead on the left have ground-floor business space and upstairs apartments. Firenze Pizzeria moved into 900 Park Ave. in 2011, after a successful run with a food truck and a mobile wood-fired oven. Next door is Java Joe’s, a well-established yet funky café with a flashy mural, sidewalk seating, local ingredients on the menu, and handcrafted coffee. One wonders how the tenant in the apartment above could ever sleep with the invigorating aroma of high-octane morning brew permeating the walls.