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Photo: Robert Reck Photography
La Fonda on the Plaza
Santa Fe, New Mexico
This Santa Fe landmark was built in 1922 and was one of the original Harvey House Hotels along the legendary Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. Its adobe-walled, Pueblo-revival architecture is classic New Mexico, designed to fire the imagination of travelers who came West to see Indians and wild frontier. It sits at the end of the original Santa Fe Trail and there has been a hotel of some sort on the site for more than 400 years. The La Fonda’s rooms and public spaces have kiva fireplaces, handcrafted Spanish colonial furnishings, hammered tin light fixtures, brightly colored walls and tiles, Navajo rugs and hand-carved vigas. The hotel is full of art by Native American artists from the area’s pueblos.
