![]() ![]() ![]() But through pure chance, two people who heard her name years apart stand among those most responsible for preserving and defending her architectural legacy today.īerke had never heard of Mary Colter. In 1987, as a group, four of her buildings at Grand Canyon-Hopi House, Hermit’s Rest, Lookout Studio and Desert View Watchtower-were designated a National Historic Landmark District.Ĭolter, an irascible perfectionist, fell into relative obscurity after her death in 1958. She is remembered as a pioneering practitioner of the rustic national park style, demanding that buildings harmonize with nature her tenure as an architect and interior designer with the Fred Harvey company coincided with the formative years of large-scale tourism development on the canyon’s south rim. Colter’s genius survives in the iconic architecture and interiors of Hopi House (1905), Lookout Studio (1914), Hermit’s Rest (1914), Phantom Ranch (1922), Desert View Watchtower (1932), and Bright Angel Lodge and Cabins (1935), all of which she is credited with designing (though her Hopi House contributions were possibly only in interior design). ![]()
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