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La Posada Hotel

Winslow
La Posada AZ.jpg
La Posada Hotel
Location 501 East Second Street
Winslow, AZ 86047
Coordinates 35°01′15″N 110°41′41″W / 35.0208°N 110.6946°W / 35.0208; -110.6946Coordinates: 35°01′15″N 110°41′41″W / 35.0208°N 110.6946°W / 35.0208; -110.6946
Line(s)
Platforms 1 side platform, 1 island platform
Tracks 5
Other information
Station code WLO
History
Opened 1929(or 1930)La Posada Hotel
Traffic
Passengers (2015) 5,074 Increase 12.7%
Services
Preceding station   BSicon LOGO Amtrak2.svg Amtrak   Following station
toward Los Angeles
Southwest Chief
toward Chicago
  Former services  
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe
toward Los Angeles
Main Line
toward Los Angeles
Main Line
Major stations
Official name Winslow Santa Fe station
Designated March 31, 1992
Part of La Posada Historic District
Reference no. 92000256
Architectural style Mission Revival/Spanish Colonial Revival

Winslow is an Amtrak train station at 501 East Second Street in Winslow, Navajo County, eastern Arizona. It is served daily by Amtrak's Southwest Chief between Chicago and Los Angeles. The Santa Fe Depot and La Posada Hotel Harvey House compound are the centerpiece of the La Posada Historic District (established 1992).

The Santa Fe Railway was built in 1929, and the adjacent La Posada Hotel and Gardens was completed in 1930.

Both were designed by renowned architect Mary Jane Colter. She is the architect of various notable Fred Harvey Company buildings, including others at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon and in New Mexico. She considered La Posada Hotel as her integrated interior/exterior masterpiece.

La Posada Hotel, and the depot, combine elements of the Mission Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival architecture styles. Characteristic Colter designed features include shaded colonnades and arcades, restaurants, red clay tile roofs above massed stuccoed walls, courtyards and acres of gardens, custom furniture, and decorative wrought ironwork throughout. The hotel building had two main entrances, a southern one on train platform and a northern one on the street for local people and U.S. Route 66 travelers.

La Posada is one of the last of a series of hotel-depot complexes built across the Southwestern United States in a collaboration between Fred Harvey and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.


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