[5] Architect Anton F. Korn designed the 160-room ten-story building in the New Mexico Territorial Revival style, with earthtone stucco, brick coping along the roofline, and southwest-style woodwork and furnishings.

[8] The hotel was finally renovated in 1984, with the number of rooms reduced to 114, and reopened on August 3, 1984[8] as La Posada de Albuquerque.

[9] The property features Más Tapas y Vino, a Spanish-influenced "dining experience" under the helm of Executive Chef Marc Quinones.

In the old Hilton the generous use of local crafts and materials was combined with the most advanced building techniques available just before World War II.

In its heyday it served the city as a social and political center before giving way to newer hotels built farther east near the new freeways.