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Boutique hotel in a 1926 Mission Revival building that served as a railway hospital and later psychiatric facility before its 2010 conversion, where guests report apparitions and unexplained sounds.
806 Central Avenue SE, Albuquerque, NM 87102
Research updated May 2026
Age
All Ages
Cost
$$$
Operating boutique hotel; room rates vary. Apothecary Lounge rooftop bar is open to non-guests.
Access
Wheelchair OK
Urban sidewalks in EDo neighborhood; elevators serve all floors.
Equipment
Photos OK
Est. 1926 · Built 1926 as Santa Fe Hospital for AT&SF Railway employees · Operated as Memorial Hospital psychiatric facility through the 2000s · $21 million adaptive-reuse renovation; reopened as hotel 2010 · Mission Revival architecture; contributing property in EDo
Hotel Parq Central occupies a 1926 Mission Revival building at 806 Central Avenue SE in Albuquerque's EDo (East Downtown) neighborhood. The structure was built as the Santa Fe Hospital, providing medical care for employees of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, which operated a major rail hub in Albuquerque. As the railway's reach contracted in the mid-twentieth century the facility was renamed the AT&SF Hospital.
In the 1980s the property was purchased by a group of psychiatrists and rebranded as Memorial Hospital, operating as a psychiatric facility primarily treating children and young adults with mental-health conditions. The facility operated under this use for roughly three decades before closing.
Following a $21 million adaptive-reuse renovation backed by municipal and neighborhood-development support, the building reopened in 2010 as Hotel Parq Central, a 74-room boutique hotel. The renovation preserved the building's exterior and significant interior detail, including the Mission Revival massing, terra-cotta tile roof, and many original corridor proportions. The rooftop was developed as the Apothecary Lounge, a nod to the building's medical past.
Sources
According to the Albuquerque Journal and the Haunted Rooms America directory, guests at Hotel Parq Central have reported a female apparition watching from the top-floor right wing of the building, where the former hospital's most-isolated patient wing was located. Other recurring reports include bedsheets being pulled off at night, the smell of antiseptic in the corridors, unexplained whispers, and metallic clanging sounds consistent with hospital-era equipment.
Staff reports collected by Haunted Rooms America describe sensations of being watched, disembodied whispers in the ear in the corridors, objects moving, and a general sense of heaviness in the upper floors. A January 2011 investigation by the local Los Muertos Spirit Seekers group documented voice recordings, temperature anomalies, and reported flashlight-communication responses.
Given the building's three-decade run as a psychiatric facility for children and young adults, accounts are framed with editorial restraint in tourism coverage. The hotel does not actively market the ghost stories on its booking pages.
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Book a room in the converted 1926 hospital building. Reports cluster on the top floor's right wing, and the original tile-and-plaster corridors retain their hospital-era proportions.
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