Cerro Pelon Ranch (originally called the Cook Ranch , and later the Cook Movie Ranch ) is a large ranch estate in Santa Fe County , New Mexico . About thirty Hollywood productions have been filmed there, including Silverado , Lonesome Dove , Wild Wild West , 3:10 to Yuma , and Thor . The film set originally constructed on the property for Silverado has been expanded and revised for each succeeding production. Contrasting the old-fashioned appearance of these sets, the property is also noted for ultramodern houses and facilities built there after its purchase in 2001 by fashion designer Tom Ford . These include a horse facility designed by noted architect Tadao Ando and implemented by the architecture firm of Marmol Radziner as executive architect and general contractor of the project, and a number of other buildings and facilities designed and built by Marmol Radziner.
37-643: The ranch occupies 20,662 acres in the Galisteo Basin , twenty-four miles south and east of Santa Fe , and just over a mile from the village of Galisteo , in Santa Fe County . The property has views of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains , Sandia Mountains , Jemez Mountains , and Ortiz Mountains , and the Galisteo River runs through it. The property is "distinguished by lush savanna grasslands, dramatic topography and
74-610: A group of houses"), from * haim ("home, village, hamlet") and gard ("yard"). The term, gard , comes from the Old Norse garðr ("enclosure, garden"). Hangars are used for protection from the weather, direct sunlight and for maintenance, repair, manufacture, assembly and storage of aircraft. The Wright brothers stored and repaired their aircraft in a wooden hangar constructed in 1902 at Kill Devil Hills in North Carolina for their glider . After completing design and construction of
111-555: A part of Pueblo culture (Eastern Anasazi ). It is widely considered one of the most impressive archeological sites in the United States. Most of the sites are currently closed to the public. The most famous Pueblo ruin within the basin is San Cristobal Pueblo . From the 14th to the early 15th century, the pueblos in Galisteo Basin were trade centers. After 1680, the basin was abandoned. Various peoples, known and unknown, inhabited
148-459: A rich cultural history", containing " [p]etroglyphs , pictographs , pottery shards and [ Puebloan ancestral dwellings]". It is part of a cluster of ranches in the area that are "[t]he most popular western filming location in New Mexico". Although the ranch had appeared in a few movie scenes as early as 1970, it "became a very important movie location in 1984 when a western town was built as
185-401: A shallow, lake-sized reflecting pool". Also built in the vicinity of the main house were "two guesthouses set privately away from the main residence", as well as four separate staff buildings, an eight-stall horse barn, indoor and outdoor circular riding rings, and a fenced tennis court . A second compound on the property, also designed and built by Marmol Radziner, contains the headquarters of
222-701: Is in Akron, Ohio and the structure was completed on November 25, 1929. The Airdock was used for the construction of the USS Akron and her sister ship, the USS Macon . Hangar One at Moffett Federal Field (formerly Naval Air Station Moffett Field ), is located in Mountain View , California. The structure was completed in 1931. It housed the USS Macon . The U.S. Navy established more airship operations during WWII. As part of this, ten "lighter-than-air" (LTA) bases across
259-604: Is the Galisteo River or Galisteo Creek , a perennial stream , for part of its course, that flows from the eastern highlands down into the Rio Grande about three miles above the Santo Domingo Pueblo . The Galisteo basin covers approximately 467,200 acres and runs from San Miguel County in the east, across Santa Fe County , and into Sandoval County at its westernmost point, the Rio Grande. Northeast of Galisteo Basin rise
296-667: The Wright Flyer in Ohio , the brothers returned to Kill Devil Hills only to find their hangar damaged. They repaired the structure and constructed a new workshop while they waited for the Flyer to be shipped. Carl Richard Nyberg used a hangar to store his 1908 Flugan (fly) in the early 20th century and in 1909, Louis Bleriot crash-landed on a northern French farm in Les Baraques (between Sangatte and Calais ) and rolled his monoplane into
333-576: The Hangar do Zeppelin [ pt ] for the German Zeppelins , and the U.S. government constructed Moffett Field , Mountain View , California and Lakehurst Naval Air Station , Lakehurst, New Jersey . Many warships carry aircraft and will often have hangars for storage and maintenance. Such hangars may be situated adjacent to the flight deck on cruisers , destroyers and frigates or underneath
370-459: The Holmby Hills, Los Angeles estate of Betsy Bloomingdale . The primary private area built during this effort added "an ultramodern main residence" designed by Ando and built by Marmol Radziner, with the firm being "responsible for the entire property's construction". The main residence is "an extraordinarily long, land-hugging ultra-minimalist concrete and glass pavilion that appears to float on
407-619: The Sangre de Cristo Mountains and to the southwest lie the Sandia Mountains . Because of its location lying between mountain ranges and connecting the upper Rio Grande Valley with the Great Plains , the Galisteo Basin was used as a trade route by prehistoric and historic indigenous and later also by the Spanish explorers. The Galisteo Basin drains the southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains, shares its northern drainage divide (height of land) with
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#1733085429400444-424: The $ 2 million expansion, which was initially supposed to be dismantled within 90 days. At that time, sets constructed for 3:10 to Yuma made up 75% of the overall sets on the ranch. In April 2007, the county's development review committee granted the request to keep the expansion, which would potentially generate revenue in the future. Although most film productions at the ranch have been traditional westerns, 2011 saw
481-521: The American FAA proposed legislation of how a hangar can be used on airfields that receive government funding. The definition of allowed activities included final assembly of aircraft. Airship hangars or airship sheds are generally larger than conventional aircraft hangars, particularly in height. Most early airships used hydrogen gas to provide them with sufficient buoyancy for flight, so their hangars had to provide protection from stray sparks to keep
518-454: The New Mexico wind". The fire destroyed the film set, which was thereafter completely rebuilt. Fashion designer Tom Ford acquired the property in 2001, and officially changed the name to Cerro Pelon Ranch. To build on the property, Ford brought in " Pritzker Prize-winning self-taught Japanese architect Tadao Ando with construction overseen by the vaunted American firm of Marmol Radziner ". Ford had previously hired Marmol Radziner to remodel
555-821: The Santa Fe Basin and its eastern drainage divide with the Pecos Basin. To the west it is bounded by the Rio Grande, and to the south by the drainage divide with the Estancia Basin , by the Ortiz Mountains . and the drainage divide with the Arroyo de la Vega de la Tanos, which flows off the western slopes of the Ortiz Mountains. The north fork of the Galisteo River arises in the southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains on
592-599: The United States were built as part of the coastal defence plan; a total of 17 hangars were built. Hangars at these bases are some of the world's largest freestanding timber structures. Bases with wooden hangars included: the Naval Air Stations at South Weymouth , Massachusetts (1 hangar); Lakehurst, New Jersey (2); Weeksville, North Carolina (1); Glynco, Georgia (2); Richmond, Florida (3); Houma, Louisiana (1); Hitchcock, Texas (1); Tustin (Santa Ana), California (2); Moffett Field, California (2) and Tillamook, Oregon (2). Of
629-570: The aircraft entrance. The bigger the aircraft to be introduced, the more complex a structure is needed. According to the span of the hangar, sizes can be classified thus: XXL hangars are built for the largest aircraft in the world like the Airbus A380 , Boeing 747 and the Antonov 225 , which are the most complex to erect. Hangars are usually regulated by the building codes in the countries and jurisdictions and airports where they reside. In August 2014,
666-449: The area, including the Tano (Arizona Tewa), East Rio Grande Keresan , Pecos , and Tewa . Hangar A hangar is a building or structure designed to hold aircraft or spacecraft . Hangars are built of metal, wood, or concrete. The word hangar comes from Middle French hanghart ("enclosure near a house"), of Germanic origin, from Frankish * haimgard ("home-enclosure", "fence around
703-598: The farmer's cattle pen. Bleriot was in a race to be the first man to cross the English Channel in a heavier-than-air aircraft, and he and set up his headquarters in the unused shed. In Britain, the earliest aircraft hangars were known as aeroplane sheds , and the oldest survivors of these are at Larkhill , Wiltshire. These were built in 1910 for the Bristol School of Flying and are now Grade II* Listed buildings . British aviation pioneer Alliott Verdon Roe built one of
740-490: The filming of a comic book movie, the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Thor . The set was expanded again for the 2016 filming of In a Valley of Violence , for which director Ti West explained that Western movie sets "kind of get cannibalized — another movie will come in and knock down buildings and put up a new church". Ford put Cerro Pelon Ranch on the market in 2016, at a price of $ 75 million, In late 2019,
777-598: The first aeroplane sheds in 1907 at Brooklands , Surrey and full-size replicas of this and the 1908 Roe biplane are on display at Brooklands Museum . As aviation became established in Britain before World War I, standard designs of hangar gradually appeared with military types too such as the Bessonneau hangar and the side-opening aeroplane shed of 1913, both of which were soon adopted by the Royal Flying Corps . Examples of
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#1733085429400814-429: The fixed hangar is a portable shelter that can be used for aircraft storage and maintenance. Portable fabric structures can be built up to 215 ft (66 m) wide, 100 ft (30 m) high and any length. They are able to accommodate several aircraft and can be increased in size and even relocated when necessary. Hangars need special structures to be built. The width of the doors have to be large; this includes
851-645: The gas from exploding. Hangars that held several airships were at risk from chain-reaction explosions. For this reason, most hangars for hydrogen-based airships were built to house only one or two such craft. During the "Golden Age" of airship travel from 1900, mooring masts and sheds were constructed to build and house airships. The British government built a shed in Karachi for the R101 , the Brazilian government built one in Rio de Janeiro ,
888-519: The largest in the world. Hangar 1, Lakehurst, is located at Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst (formerly Naval Air Station Lakehurst), New Jersey. The structure was completed in 1921 and is typical of airship hangar designs of World War I. The site is best known for the Hindenburg disaster , when on May 6, 1937, the German airship Hindenburg crashed and burned while landing. Hangar No.1 at Lakehurst
925-897: The latter survive at Farnborough , Filton and Montrose airfields. During World War I, other standard designs included the RFC General Service Flight Shed and the Admiralty F-Type of 1916, the General Service Shed (featuring the characteristic Belfast-truss roof and built-in various sizes) and the Handley Page aeroplane shed (1918). Sheds built for rigid airships survive at Moffett Field, California ; Akron, Ohio ; Weeksville, North Carolina ; Lakehurst, New Jersey ; Santa Cruz Air Force Base in Brazil; and Cardington, Bedfordshire . Steel rigid airship hangars are some of
962-515: The most suitable place to build the town of Silverado. The location manager appeared at the Cook property. At that time the filmmakers wanted to build only two to three structures, offering Cook a "casual number" as a location fee. "There wasn't any great motivation for me one way or another, but I said okay. It just grew from that into a big budget movie and the Silverado set was built", Cook recalled. The set
999-436: The primary setting for Lawrence Kasdan 's Silverado ". Seattle-born Montana rancher Bill Cook, with his wife Marian, had purchased the property as one of several ranches Cook owned in New Mexico and Arizona, and had preserved the location's wide-open vistas through "judicious placement of roads and inconspicuous fencing". Lawrence and Mark Kasdan and their crew scouted a remote area of New Mexico by helicopter, hoping to find
1036-432: The property still unsold, Ford reduced the asking price to $ 48 million. Films and TV programs with scenes shot at Cerro Pelon Ranch include: Galisteo Basin 35°27′32″N 105°58′12″W / 35.45889°N 105.97000°W / 35.45889; -105.97000 The Galisteo Basin is a surface basin and a closely related groundwater basin in north-central New Mexico . Its primary watercourse
1073-471: The ranch manager, including "[a] sophisticated home, a professional detached office building, and ample horse facilities", along with additional staff residences, warehouse facilities, and an airstrip and hangar . In 2007, during the filming of 3:10 to Yuma , a substantial number of buildings were added to the movie set. After filming concluded, the owners of the Cerro Pelon Ranch petitioned to keep
1110-512: The river about 3.5 miles (5.6 km) below the east fork. The south fork of the Galisteo River, also known as the Arroyo de la Jara, drains from the eastern and southern slopes of the basin. Its major contributor is Gaviso Arroyo. After the three fork join, the river flows northwest for about 30 miles (48 km) into the Rio Grande. The tracks of the BNSF railroad run beside the Galisteo River for most of this distance, turning south about 2 miles before
1147-427: The river enters the Rio Grande. After the three fork join, the river receives flow from the north off the height of land south of the city of Santa Fe , including Gallina Arroyo, San Marcos Arroyo and Canada de la Cueva. From the south it receives flow off the eastside of the Ortiz Mountains from Arroyo la Joya, Arroyo Canamo, Cunningham Creek, and Arroyo Viejo. The Galisteo Basin has a rich cultural history being
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1184-404: The seventeen, only seven remain, Moffett Federal Field , (former NAS Moffett Field), California (2); former Tustin, California (former NAS Santa Ana and MCAS Tustin), California (2); Tillamook Air Museum / Tillamook Airport (former NAS Tillamook), Oregon (1) and Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst /Naval Support Activity Lakehurst (former NAS Lakehurst), New Jersey (2). A hangar for Cargolifter
1221-475: The slopes of Thompson Peak and Glorieta Baldy. It includes flow from Grasshopper Canyon Creek, Deer Creek and Apache Canyon Creek. It is joined by the east fork just south of the town of Galisteo . The east fork of the Galisteo River, also known as the San Cristobal Arroyo, flows off of Rowe Mesa and Glorieta Mesa. A major tributary of the east fork is Padre Springs Creek. The south fork joins
1258-482: The surrounding area. For some films, only a few scenes were shot at the ranch. For others, such as Silverado and Wyatt Earp , virtually the entire film was made there. Originally known as the Cook Ranch, the property came to be referred to as Cerro Pelon (literally meaning "Bald Hill") in 1999, "after a fire started by carelessly used pyrotechnics during the filming of Wild Wild West ", which "raged out of control in
1295-406: Was appropriately dressed and filmed for towns in four different states, depending on the view from the streets—mountains or prairie or the Galisteo River . The Silverado set included 38 storefronts, a church, and two buildings with working interiors for indoor filming—the saloon, and the sheriff's office and jail. The presence of this large set thereafter brought steady production to the ranch and
1332-592: Was built at Brand-Briesen Airfield 1,180 ft (360 m) long, 705 ft (215 m) wide and 348 ft (106 m) high and is a free standing steel-dome "barrel-bowl" construction large enough to fit the Eiffel Tower on its side. The company went into insolvency and in June 2003, the facilities were sold off and the airship hangar was converted to a 'tropical paradise'-themed indoor holiday resort called Tropical Islands , which opened in 2004. An alternative to
1369-723: Was used to build and store the American USS Shenandoah . The hangar also provided service and storage for the airships USS Los Angeles , Akron , Macon , as well as the Graf Zeppelin and the Hindenburg . The largest hangars ever built include the Goodyear Airdock measuring 1,175x325x211 feet and Hangar One (Mountain View, California) measuring 1,133 ft × 308 ft × 198 ft (345 m × 94 m × 60 m). The Goodyear Airdock ,
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