July 16, 2026
Tag: Alvarado Hotel
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The Architecture of Mary Jane Colter
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Mary Jane Colter was not part of the conceptualization that Fred Harvey put on early 20th century travel to the American southwest, however her work was easily recognized and as early as the 1920s critics were writing, “Colter’s work is a vigorous modern statement, far ahead of the times.”
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July 13, 2022 2 Comments
In 1909, a male and female kidnapping team took Billy Whitla out of school and demanded a $10,000 reward. It’s good that most criminals aren’t smart people. It makes them easy to capture; they were arrested only miles away the next day. The boy was returned to his family, but the story still has a sad ending.