Stairs and Door
by Jon Burch Photography
Title
Stairs and Door
Artist
Jon Burch Photography
Medium
Photograph - Digital Capture & Enhancement
Description
A back door to the Painted Desert. The Painted Desert Inn can be found in eastern Arizona along US Highway 66.
The Inn is a lodge in Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. It was built around 1937-1940, on the site of an earlier lodge, the Stone Tree House. It was designed in 1937 by National Park Service architect Lyle E. Bennett and others from the Park Service Branch of Plans and Design. Construction was carried out by Civilian Conservation Corps labor. After updates by Mary Jane Colter, it was operated by the Fred Harvey Company from 1947 to 1963, when it closed. Demolition was proposed in the mid-1970's, but after public protests the building was reopened for limited use in 1976. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1987. The old Inn buildings were extensively rehabilitated, and reopened as a museum and bookstore in 2006.
Hopi artist Fred Kabotie was engaged by Colter to paint the Inn's murals in 1947-48. Colter knew Kabotie from a previous collaboration at the Hopi House at the Grand Canyon. Kabotie's work depicts aspects of Hopi life, including a journey through the Painted Desert to collect salt.
Image copyright 2019 Jon Burch Photography
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March 24th, 2019
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