Hopi House
Hopi House | |
Contributing Property | |
Location | Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona |
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Coordinates | 36°3′28″N 112°8′12″W / 36.05778°N 112.13667°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | 1904 |
Architect | Mary Colter |
Part of | Mary Jane Colter buildings (ID87001436) |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | May 28, 1987[1] |
Designated NHLDCP | May 28, 1987[2] |
Hopi House is located on the South Rim of the
Design
Mary Colter had worked on a number of projects for the Fred Harvey Company, principally as an
Description
Hopi House is a stepped structure executed in sandstone of varying size, texture and coursing. The roof surfaces function as terraces in the same manner as traditional Hopi dwellings. Windows are small and sparse, with doorways on the same small scale. Interior walls are plastered with adobe, while ceilings are composed of saplings, twigs and grass covered with mud. Fireplaces are located in the corners of rooms. The old staircase to the second floor is decorated with murals by an unknown Hopi artist. The second floor houses a shrine, called a kiva, with Hopi religious artifacts. Floors on the second floor were made to look like adobe but were actually cement, which later in the 1930s the floor was laid with hard wood flooring. The third floor was used as an apartment for the building's former managers. It has since been updated and is now used as storage but a number of original features have been preserved. Most of the original furnishings in the main level, picked out by Colter, have been preserved.[4]
Historic designation
Hopi House is a component of the multi-site
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ a b "Mary Jane Colter Buildings". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. September 25, 2007. Archived from the original on February 25, 2013.
- ISBN 0-8118-1854-3.
- ^ a b c Harrison, Laura Soulliere (1986). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory – Nomination Form: M.E.J. Colter Buildings". National Park Service. p. continuation page 3. Retrieved November 18, 2011.
- ^ Reeder, Linda C. “Architect Mary E. J. Colter and the Arts and Crafts Movement.” Journal of the Southwest, vol. 61, no. 3, The Southwest Center, University of Arizona, 2019, pp. 613–39, doi:10.1353/jsw.2019.0042.
- ^ Berke, Arnold: "Mary Colter: Architect of the Southwest", pp. 64–68. Princeton Architectural Press, 2002.[ISBN missing]
- ^ Chappell, Gordon (May 10, 1975). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory – Nomination Form: Grand Canyon Village Historic District". National Park Service. Retrieved November 17, 2011.