Mary Colter

Colter worked for the Fred Harvey Company for four decades, designing hotels, shops, restaurants and rest stops along the Santa Fe Railway and at the Grand Canyon.

She studied Pueblo, Hopi and Spanish colonial building, then built with rubble stone, logs and adobe so that new structures looked as if they had grown out of the canyon rim and the desert. She also designed interiors, furniture and dining-car china.

Her authorship was often left off the record in her lifetime. Several of her buildings are now National Historic Landmarks.