The Kiva, Bandelier National Monument, Los Alamos, NM
**Bandelier CCC Historic District** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 87001452, date listed 5/28/1987
Off NM 4
Los Alamos, NM (Sandoval County)
A National Historic Landmark (www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalhistoriclandmarks/list-of-nh...).
The Bandeller CCC Historic District contains 31 buildings all of pueblo revival design executed with a solid architectural unity that romantically mimicked a small New Mexican village. Designed by National Park Service architects and landscape architects and built by the Civilian Conservation Corps, this group of buildings provided a complete development for a national monument—from office space and residences for employees to lodging for guests.
The district is a prime example illustrating the guiding principles of National Park Service architecture (often called "rustic architecture" or "parkitecture") that developed during the 1920s and 1930s. Also, the Bandeller CCC Historic District is the largest collection of CCC-built structures in a national park and perhaps in the nation that has not been altered by the addition of new structures within the district.
The Bandeller CCC Camp employed several thousand men, mostly local New Mexican people, from 1933 to 1941 as part of President Franklin D, Roosevelt's New Deal. Not only did the unskilled people involved learn building and crafts skills in carrying out NPS designs, but they received so much on-the-job training that they carried out this extremely ambitious program at levels of skill comparable to master craftsmen. The buildings played a minor supportive role during World War II to top-secret Project Y (the "Manhattan Project") by housing nuclear physicists, technicians, and contractors connected with the development of the atomic bomb at Los Alamos a few miles away. (1)
B-21: 1938-39
Original use: building known as "the kiva" and contained the lodge's hot water system, cedar closets for linen storage in the basement, and men's and women's restrooms and a utility room on the first floor. (1)
References (1) NRHP Nomination Form s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg...
The Kiva, Bandelier National Monument, Los Alamos, NM
**Bandelier CCC Historic District** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 87001452, date listed 5/28/1987
Off NM 4
Los Alamos, NM (Sandoval County)
A National Historic Landmark (www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalhistoriclandmarks/list-of-nh...).
The Bandeller CCC Historic District contains 31 buildings all of pueblo revival design executed with a solid architectural unity that romantically mimicked a small New Mexican village. Designed by National Park Service architects and landscape architects and built by the Civilian Conservation Corps, this group of buildings provided a complete development for a national monument—from office space and residences for employees to lodging for guests.
The district is a prime example illustrating the guiding principles of National Park Service architecture (often called "rustic architecture" or "parkitecture") that developed during the 1920s and 1930s. Also, the Bandeller CCC Historic District is the largest collection of CCC-built structures in a national park and perhaps in the nation that has not been altered by the addition of new structures within the district.
The Bandeller CCC Camp employed several thousand men, mostly local New Mexican people, from 1933 to 1941 as part of President Franklin D, Roosevelt's New Deal. Not only did the unskilled people involved learn building and crafts skills in carrying out NPS designs, but they received so much on-the-job training that they carried out this extremely ambitious program at levels of skill comparable to master craftsmen. The buildings played a minor supportive role during World War II to top-secret Project Y (the "Manhattan Project") by housing nuclear physicists, technicians, and contractors connected with the development of the atomic bomb at Los Alamos a few miles away. (1)
B-21: 1938-39
Original use: building known as "the kiva" and contained the lodge's hot water system, cedar closets for linen storage in the basement, and men's and women's restrooms and a utility room on the first floor. (1)
References (1) NRHP Nomination Form s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg...