![]() ![]() Harvey was immediately impressed by young Colter’s ability and imagination. Her mother recognized her passion and allowed her to study art.Ĭolter’s big break came when she apprenticed one summer to Fred Harvey, whose company was just then establishing a series of railroad hotels as the dawn of train travel began bringing tourists west. It was his early death that opened her horizons. From a poor family, her father wanted her to learn something more practical that would insure an easier living. In fact, she was fortunate to have a couple of years of art school in San Francisco. When Colter started out there was a single school of architecture in the country. None is more breathtaking than the Watchtower at Desert View, on the southeast rim of Grand Canyon. To the great delight of those of us who live around here and care about such bounty, she left many of her beautiful buildings in the US American Southwest. Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter was one of the country’s great architects, at a time when most architects looked to Europe for inspiration and almost no architect in the United States was a woman. ![]()
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