Updraft Kiln La Luz Pottery 3

by Diana Powell

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Updraft Kiln La Luz Pottery 3

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Diana Powell

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Photograph - Photography / Digital Art

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The La Luz Pottery Factory, one of the most important historic sites in Otero County, New Mexico, was built in 1930 by Rowland Hazard III from Newport, Rhode Island. This April, the La Luz Pottery Factory (listed on the New Mexico Register of Cultural Properties and the National Register in 1979) was donated to the Tularosa Basin Historical Society for long-term preservation and interpretation. The Pottery Factory is of national significance, important to Rhode Island as well as New Mexico, and of particular significance to all the Friends of Bill Wilson because of its association with the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous. The La Luz Pottery property contains 235 acres with water rights, and the extensive clay pits. In 1967, it had eight structures in various structural conditions, ranging from two occupiable residential houses to ruins of industrial facilities. The most prominent structure is, undoubtedly, the firing kiln with its tall brick chimney which still contains 4000 roofing tiles from the last firing, probably in 1949.

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June 23rd, 2014

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