Preservation: History Up in Smoke
Categories: Preservation: You Can Help
By: Mark Boardman 01/01/2008
Help for the Harvey House
A century ago, many passengers on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe stayed at the Havasu Harvey House in Seligman, Arizona. The 50-room hotel, with a restaurant, lunch counter, reading room and bar, closed in 1984.
With its gutted interior, leaking roof and torn down sections, the building is slated to be demolished this year.
Friends of Havasu is campaigning to save the Harvey House. The group envisions a restored hotel serving as a centerpiece for tourism in the remote Route 66 town. The Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, successor to the AT&SF, will donate the Harvey House to any qualified group that can move the building. A feasibility study is underway to determine if that is possible, and the group is talking with investors interested in the project. 520-422-3633
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That is sad news about the school in Denison. The Superintendent of schools here in St. Joseph is proposing a "visionary" new plan which includes closing and razing three 100-year-old school buildings which are still very much in use. New is better, don'tcha know? There is a group forming now to mobilize to save these viable neighborhood schools, but time is of the essence. I am really dismayed to read that, even with funding in hand, this venerable old Texas building was lost.