One of the “last great railroad hotels,” La Posada Hotel was designed by Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter for the Santa Fe Railway in 1929. The story of the hotel begins with Fred Harvey who developed and ran all the hotels and restaurants of the Santa Fe Railway, eventually controlling a hospitality empire that spanned the continent.
In the 1920s, Harvey decided to build a major hotel in the center of northern Arizona. “La Posada”—the Resting Place—was to be the finest in the Southwest. He chose Winslow, then (as now) the Arizona headquarters for the Santa Fe Railway. Colter worked for the Fred Harvey Company from 1905 until her retirement in the 1950s. Although famous for her magnificent buildings at the Grand Canyon, she considered La Posada her finest work.
Located at 303 E 2nd Street in Winslow, Arizona.
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