La Posada Hotel Winslow Arizona DSC08871-2014
by Greg Kluempers
Title
La Posada Hotel Winslow Arizona DSC08871-2014
Artist
Greg Kluempers
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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La Posada Hotel Winslow Arizona located on Route 66 -- Lobby of hotel in Southwest style in 2014. It really was pretty dark and I used a .6 sec shutter speed and it was blurred. I used Topaz Photo AI and it cleared up most of the foreground but the darker areas in the background we still a little blurred so if then applied Topaz Impressions to give it a painterly feeling.
Santa Fe Railway La Posada embodies the visions of both Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter, the hotel’s renowned architect, and Allan Affeldt, its current owner. But the story really begins with Fred Harvey, who “civilized the west” by introducing linen, silverware, china, crystal, and impeccable service to railroad travel. (He was so legendary that MGM made a movie called The Harvey Girls starring Judy Garland.) Harvey developed and ran all the hotels and restaurants of the Santa Fe Railway, eventually controlling a hospitality empire that spanned the continent.
In the 1920s, Harvey decided to build a major hotel in the center of northern Arizona. “La Posada”—the Resting Place—was to be the finest in the Southwest. Construction costs alone exceeded $1 million in 1929. Total budget with grounds and furnishings was rumored at $2 million (about $40 million in today’s dollars). They chose Winslow, then (as now) the Arizona headquarters for the Santa Fe Railway. Winslow was ideally situated for a resort hotel since everything to see and do in northern Arizona is a comfortable day’s drive. They asked Colter to design the new hotel.
Colter worked for the Fred Harvey Company from 1905 until her retirement in the 1950s. Although famous for her magnificent buildings at the Grand Canyon, she considered La Posada her masterpiece. Here she was able to design or select everything from the structures to the landscape, furniture, maids’ costumes, and dinner china. Many people consider this the most important and most beautiful building in the Southwest. https://laposada.org/history/
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April 5th, 2023
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Taphath Foose
CONGRATULATIONS on your SECOND PLACE tied-win in the Artistic Buildings contest!!! Great work, Greg!! :)
Femina Photo Art By Maggie
CONGRATULATIONS! Your excellent work has been featured on the home page of Color. Thank you for submitting it. l/f