Guard Shack
Guard Shack is a building in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Guard Shack is situated nearby to the historic building University House, as well as near the government office Administration.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Los Alamos History Museum and Mesa Public Library.
Los Alamos History Museum
Museum
Photo: Marcin Wichary, CC BY 2.0.
The Los Alamos History Museum is housed in two buildings: the historic Guest Cottage, located next to Fuller Lodge, of Los Alamos Ranch School, which was General Leslie Groves's favorite place to stay during the Manhattan Project; and the Bethe House a short distance away, where Hans Bethe lived for a brief time after the end of World War II. Los Alamos History Museum is situated 1¼ miles northeast of Guard Shack.
Mesa Public Library
Library
Photo: AllenS, Public domain.
Mesa Public Library is the Los Alamos branch of the Los Alamos County Library System in New Mexico, United States. The library collection has more than 160,000 items which include books, CDs, DVDs, original paintings, and material in several foreign languages. Mesa Public Library is situated 1¼ miles northeast of Guard Shack.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Los Alamos.
Los Alamos
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Los Alamos is a small town in northern New Mexico, about an hour northwest of Santa Fe. Its claim to fame is the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where Oppenheimer and other physicists created the world's first atomic bomb during World War II, concluding the Golden Age of Modern Physics and heralding the Atomic Age.
Guard Shack
- Type: Building
- Also known as: “Chicken Shack”
- Location: Los Alamos, New Mexico, Southwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.87539° or 35° 52′ 31″ northLongitude
-106.32224° or 106° 19′ 20″ westOpen location code
857MVMGH+54OpenStreetMap ID
way 756557020OpenStreetMap feature
building=yes
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