Resources

Learn more about Arizona's history and these architectural landmarks.


Barnes, Christine. Great Lodges of the National Parks. Bend, OR: W.W. West, Inc., 2002.

Grattan, Virginia. Mary Colter: Builder upon the Red Earth. Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press, 1980.

Berke, Arnold. Mary Jane Colter: Architect of the Southwest. New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2002.

Patterson, Ann and Vinson, Mark. Landmark Buildings: Arizona's Architectural Heritage. Phoenix, AZ: Arizona Highways, 2004.

Suggested Reading on Fred Harvey and the Harvey Girls:

Armstrong, William Patrick. Fred Harvey: Creator of Western Hospitality. Bellemont, AZ: Canyonlands Publications, 2000.

Babcock, Barbara and Weigle, Marta, ed. The Great Southwest of the Fred Harvey Company and the Santa Fe Railway. Phoenix, AZ: The Heard Museum, 1996.

Henderson, James David. Meals by Fred Harvey: A Phenomenon of the American West. Fort Worth: Texas. Texas Christian University Press, 1969.

Herbert, Charles W. The Fred Harvey Story. Arizona Highways, Vol., 44:6, June 1968.

Poling-Kemps, Lesley. The Harvey Girls: Women Who Opened the West. New York, NY: Marlowe & Company, 1991.

Putman, Nina Wilcox. The Harvey Girls—Tamers of the Wild West. The American Weekly, August 15, 1948.


Online Resources:

National Fred Harvey Museum Leavenworth, Kansas

Florence Harvey House Florence, Kansas

The Fred Harvey Collection The Heard Museum

Special Collections University of Arizona Fred Harvey Collection


El Tovar – National Park Service Architecture

Grand Canyon Railway Depot – NPS Architecture


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