Residents can have breakfast in the restaurant. Guests can use a shower together with a hair dryer and toiletries. Offering WiFi, the 180 rooms come with an iron with ironing board and air conditioner to ensure a comfortable stay. This Santa Fe property is also in the immediate vicinity of a motorway. There is Railyard Park 1.3 km away, and Downtown Transit Center bus station next door to La Fonda On The Plaza Hotel. Guests can explore interesting places, as the accommodation is adorned with a café, coffee shops and a bar. Perfect for those who seek new knowledge, the non-profit Santa Fe Institute is a 10-minute ride from the property. When the expanded and remodeled La Fonda Hotel re-opened for business in 1929, Colter’s wonderful interior, with its unique handmade and painted furniture, distinctive wrought-iron fixtures, painted glass, exposed ceiling beams, rustic tile and flagstone floors was an immediate sensation, setting a new and never since equalled by anyone other than her standard of Southwestern Native and Spanish-themed aesthetics, decor and hospitality with her unique vision.Standing a 5-minute walk from Cathedral Park, La Fonda On The Plaza is situated in the heart of Santa Fe. Colter.īy this time, Colter had already completed a number of important hotel and interior designs for the Santaįe Railway and The Harvey Company, including Hopi House at the Grand Canyon and the El Navajo Hotel in Gallup, New Mexico and she was already hard at work on the plans for their next ambitious project,
In 1925, the hotel was purchased by The Santa Fe Railway, who, along with their hospitality partners, the renowned Fred Harvey Company, commissioned a sizable expansion and exterior and interior remodeling by noted Santa Fe architect, John Gaw Meem, working closely in conjunction with The Harvey Company’s own architect and interior designer, Mary E. The La Fonda Hotel was originally designed and built by the esteemed architectural firm of Rapp, Rapp and Hendrickson in 1922. These large sideboards were conceived and created for, and used over decades in, the wonderful public spaces of one of the greatest and most significant historic landmarks of the American Southwest, The Fred Harvey Company’s famed La Fonda Hotel on the centuries-old historic, downtown Santa Fe Plaza at the very end of the 900-mile-long Santa Fe Trail. The extensive hand-wrought chip-carving and other fine wood detailing is very beautifully and precisely done and the delightful hand-painted designs are most beautifully-executed rich, profuse, colorful, exuberant and fanciful, distilling and elaborating upon New Mexican, Spanish and old Mexican folk art traditions. These sideboards were built to Colter’s design and order using classic early 20th Century New Mexican furniture-making techniques, fashioned of thick, wide slabs of wood using entirely traditional wood-pegged construction. Colter’s finest architectural creations were always imbued with a marvelous and unerring sense of place, of time, of custom and historic beauty. Colter for The Santa Fe Railway & Fred Harvey Company’sĪn extraordinary marriage of Southwestern art and history, these fantastic sideboards fully embody all the splendid originality and tradition that the great Fred Harvey Company and Santa Fe Railroad architect and interior designer, Mary E. Wooden buffet sideboards, circa 1930, designed by and made for A matched pair of elaborately hand-carved and hand-painted
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