The landscapes were so different from the flat fields and rolling green hills they’d left behind, they might as well have been riding on the surface of the moon. ISBN 978-0-8815-0908-3.Tourists discovered the American Southwest in the 1890s as passenger trains carried them over snowy mountain passes through dense pine forests across desolate stretches of desert and past canyons, mesas and buttes. Signs & Shrines: Spiritual Journeys Across New Mexico. Walks in Literary Santa Fe: A Guide to Landmarks, Legends, and Lore. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. All Aboard for Santa Fe: Railway Promotion of the Southwest, 1890s to 1930s. Journey to the High Southwest, 8th: A Traveler's Guide to Santa Fe and the Four Corners of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah. Season 1, episode 3, "Dueling Politicians Nuclear Intel Seattle Scammers" of the Travel Channel's Mysteries at the Hotel was shot at La Fonda. Ride the Pink Horse, a 1947 film noir, was shot at the La Fonda. Two staff members also received service awards. The hotel's art and historical tours, led by trained docents, won the Top HAT Award for "outstanding attraction" in 2015. On the street level is the eclectic gift shop, Detours at La Fonda and as well as many other shops, including the independently-owned French Pastry Shop and Restaurant, which serves breakfast and lunch. On the roof of the fifth floor is the Bell Tower Bar. La Fiesta has live music and a dance floor. La Plazuela is a full-service restaurant serving inspired New Mexican cuisine, while the La Fiesta Lounge, a bar and restaurant, serves lunch and dinner. People dining at the Bell Tower restaurant, La Fonda The hotel continued as a Harvey House until 1969. The Harvey Company promoted tourism in the Southwest and offered "Indian Detours," educational cultural tours to the Pueblos, beginning in 1926. Her designs included exposed vigas, or ceiling beams, and Mexican tiles. Mary Colter redesigned the hotel's interior, setting a tone inspired by Spanish and Southwest Native American aesthetics that continues today. The new owners commissioned local muralists to paint the interior walls, beginning La Fonda's longstanding support of local visual arts. one of the most truly distinctive hotels anywhere between Chicago and San Diego." Īfter its auspicious launch, the hotel closed temporarily in the 1920s, until it was purchased in 1925 by the Santa Fe Railway. The new hotel was hailed as "the purest Santa Fe type of architecture and. Architect Isaac Hamilton Rapp (1854-1933), the "Creator of the Santa Fe style" was chosen to design the new hotel in the Pueblo Revival style, which drew inspiration from the adobe architecture of indigenous Pueblo peoples of the region. In 1920, the Santa Fe Builders Corporations issue shares of stock to raise funds to build a new hotel. Īn earlier construction of the hotel, called the United States Hotel but nicknamed La Fonda Americana by locals, burned down in 1912. The Fred Harvey Company established La Fonda as one of its premier Harvey Houses. It is on the El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, which linked Mexico City to Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo and was the terminus of the 800-mile-long Old Santa Fe Trail, which linked Independence, Missouri to Santa Fe and was an essential commercial route prior to the 1880 introduction to the railroad. The site of the current La Fonda has been the location of various inns since 1609.
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