A northern New Mexico ranch where novelist D.H. Lawrence once sought spiritual renewal is working to reshape itself.
The Albuquerque Journal reports that Taos groups like the D.H. Lawrence Ranch Alliance, Friends of D.H. Lawrence and elements within University of New Mexico are helping to raise funds for the ranch.
The ranch was closed to visitors from 2008 until 2014 but reopened last summer. The property has languished due to a lack of funds for upkeep, an unreliable water supply and its isolated location.
According to preservation advocates, Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, made summer visits in 1924 and 1925. Even after Lawrence's 1930 death, the ranch still hosted many famous visitors like author Willa Cather and artist Georgia O'Keeffe.
Frieda Lawrence, who died in 1956, left the property to UNM.
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