– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Other Photographic Subjects at El Rancho de las Golondrinas It’s the details that bring any museum, especially a living museum, to life. Throughout the 200 acre site of El Rancho de las Golondrinas you will find many wonderful photographic subjects which are not detailed in any guidebook but make the whole...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – The Big Mill from Sapello The largest mill at the living history museum of El Rancho de las Golondrinas was originally built and used by the Pacheco family in Sapello, New Mexico. Its machinery, which was manufactured in Buffalo, New York, was shipped to New Mexico by railroad in the 1880s. The miller ground...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Las Golondrinas Chapel Altar Screen Across the placita, or plaza, from the weaving room at El Rancho de las Golondrinas, which we visited in the last post, is the chapel. The chapel was the settlement’s first building and was probably the first family home. It was used as a meeting room as well as the...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Las Golondrinas Weaving Room We now step inside on our tour of El Rancho de las Golondrinas. which we began last week with the brief history of this living museum. Here we visit the weaving room. Spinners and weavers were very important to the settlement. They made most of the clothes the people wore, the...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Solid Wooden Wheeled Carretas In the last post began our look at New Mexico’s first living museum, El Rancho de las Golondrinas, the Ranch of the Swallows. The self-guided tour begins at the large wooden doors to the placita, where we find the three farm wagons, or carretas, seen in the last post. This...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – El Rancho de las Golondrinas Lying in the small valley of the Cienega stream some fifteen miles southwest of Santa Fe is El Rancho de las Golondrinas, the Ranch of the Swallows. Evidence of ancient habitation show that man lived in the area long before the Spanish conquistadores came to New Mexico. Their...
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