Historical Marker Sign Concerning => Mary Colter's Bright Angel Lodge. National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.
… Photographed by James Hulse, June 21, 2024.
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BRIGHT ANGEL LODGE
Inscription On 1. Bright Angel Lodge Marker.
… Completed in 1935, Bright Angel Lodge was designed and built under the direction of Mary Colter, Fred Harvey company's celebrated Southwest architect. Colter's penchant for rustic designs and her attention to detail led to the creation of this chimney in front of you. Although ordinary from the outside, the interior hearth is layered with stone collected from the geologic layers found in Grand Canyon. We still admire Colter's artistry. She made every feature and object throughout the lodge complex fit visually and blend with the canyon landscape.

It was first designed to scale in toy form by Miss M.E. J. Colter... every building shown...in the particular style of architecture, and colored to show the stone, weathered logs or adobe of its construction; and every tree was also shown in the model. As Stated in > -The Hotel Monthly, 1936.

Captions Of Photos Shown On Sign
…The 1910 Bright Angel Hotel was an extension of Buckey O'Neill's cabin (a few steps west of here). Colter kept the original cabin and melded its rough-hewn appearance into the design of the lodge complex.

…A wooden thunderbird looks down on the lodge Paid Advertisement
lobby, Colter's "bright angel."

…Beginning in the late 1800s, pioneers vied to establish a hotel here worthy of the view. In 1935, Fred Harvey company succeeded by opening the Bright Angel Lodge complex.

Erected by Grand Canyon, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.
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With Many Thanks: The Above Copied From
… THE HISTORICAL MARKER DATABASE: Mary Colter’s Bright Angle Lodge. Click Here..
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