Harwood

The original Harwood Girls School, located in a small home in downtown Albuquerque, was founded by Reverend Thomas Harwood and his wife, Emily, who came to New Mexico in the 1880s as missionaries of the Methodist Church. The school moved to successively larger facilities for the next thirty years as a result of a growing demand for their services and an increasing number of students. In 1925 the lot on the corner of 7th Street and Mountain Road was purchased by the Women's Home Missionary Society which built and operated a "new and improved" school for girls in grades 1-12. In 1935, as part of the Works Progress Administration, an additional building was added to house the home economics and music classes. Then in 1940, a two-story building, Hudd Hall, was designed and built, completing the campus. 

The Harwood Girls School on Seventh Street operated from 1925 through 1976, serving hundreds of young women of all ages and backgrounds. In 1976, the United Women's Methodist Ministry was forced to cut the school's budget in half and it was closed "with great sorrow and regret."

To this day, the Harwood enjoys a friendly relationship with many women who attended school there over the years. A reunion organized by alumnae is held in Albuquerque every other year and many women take the opportunity to visit the site of their former school.