Snyder: Fuller Lodge … Centerpiece Of Community
By SHARON SNYDER
Los Alamos Historical Society
On Sept. 17, 1928, the Santa Fe New Mexican ran a headline: “Los Alamos School Opens, Fuller Lodge Is Completed”. The article referred to a beautiful log edifice two and a half stories high, with “its most striking feature being the long and lofty portal on the east front, facing the Jemez Plateau with the Sangre de Cristo range in the far distance.”
The first plans for Fuller Lodge were sketched in 1925 and preliminary drawings were finished in 1927, showing a building that would blend with the first Los Alamos Ranch School building, a two-story log structure called the Big House. The new lodge also would have vertical logs with contrasting horizontal log placements to coordinate with the Big House architecture.
Lemonade Living Raising Funds To Buy Historic Cabin
Lujan cabin owner Shelly Cross approached Lemonade Living about buying the cabin. Courtesy photo
By KIRSTEN LASKEY
kirsten@ladailypost.com
Lemonade Living has big dreams and with its plan to purchase the Lujan Homestead Cabin this week, many of those dreams are about to come true.
“When Lemonade Living first started, the goal was to build a farm and have an activities program with a long-term goal of a residential campus,” Lemonade Living Founder Melissa Arias said.
The creation of a jobs training program kicked off when Rose Chocolatier, 149 Central Park Square, was donated to Lemonade Living in 2019.
Los Alamos Historical Society Offering Volunteer Training
Los Alamos Historical Society News:
With tourist season in full swing, the Los Alamos Historical Society and Museum are seeking new volunteers for a variety of positions.
A training session focusing on the community’s history and historic district will be offered 4-5 p.m. Thursdays, May 13, May 20, May 27, June 3 and June 10.
Participants will gather in the lobby of Fuller Lodge at 4 p.m. for each Thursday training session.
The training includes engaging discussions on Los Alamos, covering the homestead era on the Pajarito Plateau, the Los Alamos Ranch School, the Manhattan Project, and postwar Los Alamos. There also is an emphasis on visitor engagement and customer service throughout.
Snyder: Oldest Continuously Used Building In Los Alamos
The Guest Cottage, 2018. Photo by Todd Nickols
By SHARON SNYDER
Los Alamos Historical Society
For more than a century, the oldest continuously used building in Los Alamos has served at different times as an infirmary, a guest cottage, living quarters, a shelter for skunks, and a museum and gift shop. As we might expect, a building that has existed on the plateau for that long has stories to tell!
Referred to as the Guest Cottage for most of its existence, the building can be documented as far back as 1918 in records left by the Los Alamos Ranch School (LARS).
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