Archive for December 2021
Two-Lane Tidbit: Bathtub Row, Los Alamos, NM
Once home to the Los Alamos Ranch School faculty, the buildings along the road that once ran through the school property in Los Alamos, NM became the residences of the most prestigious scientists involved in the Manhattan Project. At a time when homes with bathtubs were considered a luxury and were only being built with…
Read MoreTwo-Lane Tidbit: St. Francis Health Center, Colorado Springs, CO
The original hospital in Colorado Springs, the St. Francis Health Center, was built in 1887 as a one-story infirmary to provide medical services to injured railroad workers. After a train derailment near Leadville, it was decided that the city needed a larger hospital and one was built on the site of the now-abandoned St. Francis…
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