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**Lowry Ruin** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 66000253, date listed 10/15/1966

30 mi. NW of Cortez via U.S. 160

Pleasant View, CO (Montezuma County)

A National Historic Landmark (www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalhistoriclandmarks/list-of-nh...).

Lowry Pueblo, located about 4-5 miles northwest of Cortez Colorado, is a masonry pueblo of about 30 rooms that was occupied during the late 1000s and the early 1100s. It represents the northernmost influence of southern ideas which involved community projects, such as the great kiva situated to the southeast of the pueblo proper.

The pueblo originally was a small unit of a few rooms like many others in the vicinity, but differed in having a great kiva (large ceremonial structure) associated. This feature, a southern trait, is present at only a few sites in the general region suggesting that each such site acted as a ceremonial center for a scattered population unit. Like other pueblos farther south, Lowry Pueblo increased in size due to periodic population accretions from other small pueblo units which began to concentrate in the villages with the great kivas. (1)

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The changing floor plans showed record growth stages in the pueblo. The first kiva and four-room core expanded to a 40-room building in about one generation (AD 1085-1105). In 1936, archaeologist Paul S. Martin envisioned “frenzied and exuberant outbursts” of demolition, remodeling, and new construction that often erased evidence of earlier layouts.

References (1) NRHP Nomination Form s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg...

**Lowry Ruin** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 66000253, date listed 10/15/1966

30 mi. NW of Cortez via U.S. 160

Pleasant View, CO (Montezuma County)

A National Historic Landmark (www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalhistoriclandmarks/list-of-nh...).

Lowry Pueblo, located about 4-5 miles northwest of Cortez Colorado, is a masonry pueblo of about 30 rooms that was occupied during the late 1000s and the early 1100s. It represents the northernmost influence of southern ideas which involved community projects, such as the great kiva situated to the southeast of the pueblo proper.

The pueblo originally was a small unit of a few rooms like many others in the vicinity, but differed in having a great kiva (large ceremonial structure) associated. This feature, a southern trait, is present at only a few sites in the general region suggesting that each such site acted as a ceremonial center for a scattered population unit. Like other pueblos farther south, Lowry Pueblo increased in size due to periodic population accretions from other small pueblo units which began to concentrate in the villages with the great kivas. (1)

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Lowry Pueblo is famous for its four kivas with painted plaster, discovered in the 1930s during excavations sponsored by the Chicago Field Museum of Natural History. All of the murals at Lowry were painted on the lower walls or “banquettes.” Kiva A (no longer visible) had more than 25 coats of plaster, measuring a total of 5 inches (about 13cm) thick.

References (1) NRHP Nomination Form s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg...

**Lowry Ruin** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 66000253, date listed 10/15/1966

30 mi. NW of Cortez via U.S. 160

Pleasant View, CO (Montezuma County)

A National Historic Landmark (www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalhistoriclandmarks/list-of-nh...).

Lowry Pueblo, located about 4-5 miles northwest of Cortez Colorado, is a masonry pueblo of about 30 rooms that was occupied during the late 1000s and the early 1100s. It represents the northernmost influence of southern ideas which involved community projects, such as the great kiva situated to the southeast of the pueblo proper.

The pueblo originally was a small unit of a few rooms like many others in the vicinity, but differed in having a great kiva (large ceremonial structure) associated. This feature, a southern trait, is present at only a few sites in the general region suggesting that each such site acted as a ceremonial center for a scattered population unit. Like other pueblos farther south, Lowry Pueblo increased in size due to periodic population accretions from other small pueblo units which began to concentrate in the villages with the great kivas. (1)

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In the AD 1100s, Lowry Pueblo’s eight, mostly underground, round rooms provided indoor cooking space, warmth, and a cozy atmosphere for gatherings. Some of these energy-efficient rooms are still visible. Archaeologists call these round rooms pithouses, pit structures, or, borrowing a Hopi word, kivas.

References (1) NRHP Nomination Form s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg...

Considered one of the best surviving examples of Greek Revival-style antebellum homes in Tennessee. Built for Andrew Jackson’s nephew near The Hermitage.

**Lowry Ruin** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 66000253, date listed 10/15/1966

30 mi. NW of Cortez via U.S. 160

Pleasant View, CO (Montezuma County)

A National Historic Landmark (www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalhistoriclandmarks/list-of-nh...).

Lowry Pueblo, located about 4-5 miles northwest of Cortez Colorado» Is a masonry pueblo of about 30 rooms that was occupied during the late 1000s and the early 1100s. It represents the northernmost influence of southern ideas which involved community projects, such as the great kiva situated to the southeast of the pueblo proper.

The pueblo originally was a small unit of a few rooms like many others in the vicinity, but differed in having a great kiva (large ceremonial structure) associated. This feature, a southern trait, is present at only a few sites in the general region suggesting that each such site acted as a ceremonial center for a scattered population unit. Like other pueblos farther south, Lowry Pueblo increased in size due to periodic population accretions from other small pueblo units which began to concentrate in the villages with the great kivas. (1)

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Notice how this west wall is straight and featureless. It is the back of the building. The apparent absence of ground-floor doorways may show a concern for defense or at least a preference for ladders, roof entry ways, and limited access.

References (1) NRHP Nomination Form s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg...

**Lowry Ruin** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 66000253, date listed 10/15/1966

30 mi. NW of Cortez via U.S. 160

Pleasant View, CO (Montezuma County)

A National Historic Landmark (www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalhistoriclandmarks/list-of-nh...).

Lowry Pueblo, located about 4-5 miles northwest of Cortez Colorado» Is a masonry pueblo of about 30 rooms that was occupied during the late 1000s and the early 1100s. It represents the northernmost influence of southern ideas which involved community projects, such as the great kiva situated to the southeast of the pueblo proper.

The pueblo originally was a small unit of a few rooms like many others in the vicinity, but differed in having a great kiva (large ceremonial structure) associated. This feature, a southern trait, is present at only a few sites in the general region suggesting that each such site acted as a ceremonial center for a scattered population unit. Like other pueblos farther south, Lowry Pueblo increased in size due to periodic population accretions from other small pueblo units which began to concentrate in the villages with the great kivas.

Marker text:
The Great Sage Plain, extending from southwest Colorado into southeast Utah, is covered with ancient villages, and was the most densely settled region of the Ancestral Puebloan world between AD 500 and 1300. More than just islands of architecture, these ancient places existed as single-family farms and field houses, check dams, reservoirs, great kivas, cliff dwellings, shrines, sacred springs, ancient roads, villages, clay sources, kilns, stone quarries, hunting stations, agricultural fields, rock paintings and petroglyphs, and towers. Many of these places appear today as subtle mounds of rubble, but have great value to Native Americans, scientists, and the public. (1)

References (1) NRHP Nomination Form s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg...

"Through Your Sacrifice The Constitution Lives, We The People 1787-1987"

Cedarburg Bog
Wisconsin State Natural Area #2
UWM Field Station


Ozaukee County

- Berlin, Kurfürstendamm 217 -

Höfe am Kurfürstendamm

Noch ist in den Straßen das einzige in Baumhöhe schwebende Grün das der Verkehrsampeln, und das hat etwas Vorjähriges, beinahe geisterhaftes, wenn es lebhaft vor drei wartenden Wagen flattert, als stürmten noch ihrer hundert dahin. Sehr herbstlich sind auch die roten Blätter, auf denen geschrieben steht, daß Haus an Haus Wohnungen zu vermieten sind. Aber in den Höfen der zackigen Wohnburgen merkt man den Frühling an der Mauerkrätze. In großen Stücken ist der Bewurf von den Hauswänden abgeblättert, es hat ausgesehen wie ein fressender Ausschlag, und nun scheint die Sonne in die Wunden. Bloß die Kamine, die brüderlich am Dach stehen, haben noch ihre Farbe aus guten Zeiten, und an diesem weißlichen Ziegelrot merkt man, wenn die Sonne darauf scheint, wie fest das Blau des Himmels in den letzten Wochen geworden ist. Sinkt dann der Blick aus diesem Spiel der Weiten die Wände hinab, so sind sogar die abgeblätterten Flecke an den Mauern imstande, ein blühendes Leben vorzutäuschen, das sich entfaltet.

Robert Musil, 27. März 1932


Yards on Kurfürstendamm

At tree-level, still, the only green hovering along the streets is that of the traffic lights, and this smacks of the previous year, is almost spectral, flapping in front of three waiting cars, as if hundereds more were charging along. Also very autumnal are the red leaves, annoucing that, house after house, rooms are available for rent. Yet, in the yards of the jagged residential piles the scabid walls will let you detect spring. Large pieces of plaster have fallen off the walls, the appearance of a skin-eating rash, and now the sun is shining on the wounds. Only the chimneys, brotherly up there on the rooftops, have kept their colour from the good old days, and, when illuminated by the sun, this white-tinged brick-red will make you notice how firm the blue of the sky has become in recent weeks. Then, when the gaze drops from such playful vastnesses and down the walls, even the crumbling blotches on the brickwork are able to feign a flourishing life that is evolving.

Robert Musil, 27 March 1932
(the translation is mine)

-> Mehr über die Gedenktafel / more about the plaque:
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