Grand Canyon National Park, Rte. 8A, Grand Canyon, Arizona. County/parish: Coconino.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 06, 1974. NRIS 74000334.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
The El Tovar Hotel, also known simply as El Tovar, is a former Harvey House hotel situated directly on the south rim of the Grand Canyon in Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, United States.
The hotel was designed by Charles Whittlesey, Chief Architect for the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway and was opened in 1905 as one of a chain of hotels and restaurants owned and operated by the Fred Harvey Company in conjunction with the Santa Fe railway whose Grand Canyon Depot was 100 metres (330 ft) away. It is at the northern terminus of the Grand Canyon Railway, which was formerly a branch of the Santa Fe Railroad.
The hotel is one of only a handful of former Harvey House facilities that are still in operation, and is an early example of the style that would evolve into National Park Service Rustic architecture. It has been a member of Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, since 2012.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75609735