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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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Snyder: Chief Mechanics House Saw Many Changes By SHARON SNYDER Los Alamos Historical Society The oldest continuously lived-in house in Los Alamos was built on the Los Alamos Ranch School campus in 1925 and was known as the Chief Mechanics House. It is still the neighbor of the old Guest Cottage that today houses our History Museum. In the first years of the ranch school, three brothers from Española came to work on the Pajarito Plateau. Jim Womelsduff hired on as the school’s wrangler and ranch foreman, responsible for the entire physical plant buildings, roads, water system, power plant, and power lines. ....
Snyder: From A Pointed Roof To Living Room Of Scientists - 7:20 am By Sharon Snyder Los Alamos Historical Society In the first three years of the Los Alamos Ranch School (LARS), the masters and boys all lived in a large, two-story log building known as the Big House. It contained rooms for students and masters, sleeping porches for the boys, a small library, classrooms, a kitchen and dining area, and a common room with a large fireplace. Perhaps with an eye to the future, LARS Director A.J. Connell had a square wooden structure built to the west of the Big House c.1920. The plain frame building couldn’t have been called aesthetic, but it offered quarters for two masters, each room with space for a desk and dresser and a bed on a sleeping porch. The new accommodations were soon referred to as the Pyramid, an appropriate name for a building with a four-sided pointed roof. The masters who moved into the Pyramid gained privacy but left b ....