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(UNMA 028 Box 64, housed at the CSWR)
(UNMA 28 Box 64, housed at the CSWR)
(UNMA 028 Box 64, housed at the CSWR)
(UNMA 28 Box 64, housed at the CSWR)
The complex was built to accommodate workshops, summer field schools, as well as conferences and meetings. The Lobo Lodge is a double Quonset hut building (seen on the left) that had bunkbeds to sleep about 120 people, and a kitchen-dining room that could serve and seat 60-70 people at a time. The Lobo Lodge was built in 1964 to house Peace Corps trainees in the Taos County area. The Lobo Lair (seen on the right) is also a Quonset hut building, and was completed in 1966.
(UNMA 013 1970-1971 #61 C, housed at the CSWR)
The cabin was originally built in 1891 by John Craig. Lawrence and Taos Pueblo workmen, Trinidad, Geronimo, Candido, and others, added an adobe-brick fireplace, an additional window, and replaced rotting logs across the lower back wall of the cabin. They also built a new stone foundation for the rear wall, and Lawrence re-roofed most of the buildings in 1924-5. Visible in this photograph, behind a fence made out of wire and wood posts, is a buffalo painting by Trinidad Archuleta of Taos Pueblo, nephew of Tony Luhan, that was painted in 1934 and restored by Trinidad in the 1950s.
(UNMA 013 1970-1971 #63 E, housed at the CSWR)
This cabin was one of 21 in Kiowa Village. These cabins are painted plywood prefabricated wing-foot huts that were acquired from Los Alamos under the provisions of the U.S. Health, Education and Welfare surplus properties program. These cabins were used to house married couples and others who came to the Ranch for its many conferences and workshops. When they were not being used for official school business, they were available to all UNM faculty and staff to rent on a daily basis for vacations and recreational purposes. The cottages were modestly furnished, had gas stoves, hot water heaters and refrigerators. Users had to bring their own bedding, dishes and cooking utensils.
(UNMA 013 1970-1971 #63 C, housed at the CSWR)
All photos in the gallery above are available to be viewed at the New Mexico Digital Collections website, here.
The ranch that would come to be named for D.H. Lawrence was gifted to Lawrence's wife, Frieda, by Mabel Dodge Luhan in 1924. Though Luhan refused payment, Frieda Lawrence recompensed her with the manuscript of Sons and Lovers.
Frieda and D.H. stayed at the ranch periodically between Frieda's coming into possession of it and D.H.'s death in 1930, after which Frieda remained on the ranch until her own death in 1956, one year after having deeded the ranch to the University of New Mexico. Between D.H.'s death and her own Frieda welcomed a wide variety of visitors to the ranch, including Aldous Huxley, W.H. Auden, Tennessee Williams and Georgia O'Keefe, among others.
Though D.H. Lawrence only spent about a year and a half total in Taos and at the ranch before his death, the New Mexico landscape affected him profoundly, leading him to write: "I think New Mexico was the greatest experience I ever had from the outside world. It certainly changed me forever."
