La Posada Hotel

Mary Colter considered La Posada her masterpiece, and she designed nearly every inch of it, down to the gardens and the china. Opened in 1930 as the last of the great Fred Harvey railroad hotels, it imagined a Spanish hacienda that had grown for generations beside the Santa Fe tracks. The railroad closed it in 1957 and gutted the rooms for offices, and demolition loomed for decades afterward. New owners bought the wreck in the 1990s and restored it room by room; today it runs again as a hotel, its tiled halls and gardens returned to Colter's vision.

What the plaque says

La Posada was the last of the great Fred Harvey/Santa Fe Railway hotels. This is the masterpiece of Mary Jane Colter, considered by many to be the greatest of all Southwestern architects. La Posada is on the National and State Registers of Historic Places.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Winslow — 0.2 mi
  The town an Eagles lyric made famous — and the home of La Posada, the last great railroad hotel and Mary Colter's finest work, at the southern doorway to Hopi and Navajo country.

More markers nearby

• The First Peoples of the Southwestern Colorado Plateau — steps away
• A City in Motion: Modern Modes — steps away
• Standin' on the Corner Park — 0.2 mi
• Toth Whispering Giant — 0.4 mi