Winslow station (Arizona)

{{Short description|Amtrak train station in Winslow, Arizona, US}}

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| name=Winslow, AZ

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| image=File:La Posada Hotel, Winslow, Arizona (34841041932).jpg

| image_caption=Entrance to La Posada Hotel

| address=501 East Second Street, Winslow, Arizona 86047

| coordinates={{coord|35.0208|-110.6946|type:railwaystation_region:US-AZ|display=inline,title}}

| line=BNSF Gallup / Seligman Subdivisions

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| platform=1 side platform, 1 island platform

| tracks=5

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| rebuilt=April 1929–May 18, 1930{{cite news |title=Winslow Hotel Contract Given to Texas Firm |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88586766/winslow-station-april-16-1929/ |access-date=November 8, 2021 |work=The Arizona Republic |date=April 16, 1929 |location=Phoenix, Arizona |page=8|via=Newspapers.com}} {{open access}}{{cite news |title=Santa Fe Opens New Station and Harvey House at Winslow |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/626411524/?terms=Winslow%20Santa%20Fe&match=1 |access-date=November 8, 2021 |work=The Colton Daily Courier |date=May 17, 1930 |location=Colton, California |page=3|via=Newspapers.com}} {{open access}}

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| code={{Amtrak code|WLO}}

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|line1=Southwest Chief|left1=Flagstaff|right1=Gallup}}

| other_services_header = Former services

| other_services_collapsible = yes

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|system1=Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway

|line1=main|left1=Canyon Diablo|right1=Joseph City

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{{Designation list

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| designation1_offname = Winslow Santa Fe station

| designation1 = cp | nocat = yes

| designation1_date = March 31, 1992

| designation1_number = 92000256{{cite web |title=NPS Focus |url=http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov |work=National Register of Historic Places |publisher= National Park Service |accessdate=June 2, 2014}}

| designation1_partof = {{nowrap|La Posada Historic District}}

| designation1_free1name = Architectural style

| designation1_free1value = Mission Revival/Spanish Colonial Revival

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Winslow station is an Amtrak train station at 501 East Second Street in Winslow, Navajo County, Arizona, United States. It is served daily by Amtrak's Southwest Chief between Chicago, Illinois and Los Angeles, California. The Santa Fe Depot and La Posada Hotel Harvey House compound are the centerpiece of the La Posada Historic District (established 1992).

Architecture

The Santa Fe Railway station was built in 1929, and the adjacent La Posada Hotel and Gardens was completed in 1930.{{Cite web |url=http://www.laposada.org/hotel_history.html |title=Laposada.org: History of La Posada Hotel |access-date=2015-12-11 |archive-date=2017-07-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170728231649/http://www.laposada.org/hotel_history.html |url-status=dead }}

Both were designed by renowned architect Mary Jane Colter. She was the architect of various notable Fred Harvey Company buildings, including others at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon and in New Mexico. She considered La Posada Hotel as her integrated interior/exterior masterpiece.

=Hotel=

File:La Posada lobby lounge.jpg

La Posada Hotel, and the depot, combine elements of the Mission Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival architecture styles. Characteristic Colter designed features include shaded colonnades and arcades, restaurants, red clay tile roofs above massed stuccoed walls, courtyards and acres of gardens, custom furniture, and decorative wrought ironwork throughout.

File:La Posada Hotel staircase.jpg

The hotel building had two main entrances, a southern one on the train platform and a northern one on the street for local people and U.S. Route 66 travelers.{{cite web|url=http://www.greatamericanstations.com/Stations/WLO/Station_view |title=Winslow, AZ – Great American Stations |publisher=Greatamericanstations.com |date=1990-07-26 |accessdate=2014-06-10}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.laposada.org/hotel_history_origins.html |title=Laposada.org: The Fantasy − Mary Jane Colter's Vision |access-date=2015-12-11 |archive-date=2014-06-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140602201002/http://www.laposada.org/hotel_history_origins.html |url-status=dead }}

La Posada is one of the last of a series of hotel-depot complexes built across the Southwestern United States in a collaboration between Fred Harvey and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.

The hotel was closed in 1957, turned into offices, and later abandoned.

Bought in 1997 to save it, it was substantially restored to reopen as a historic hotel and restaurant complex. Further restoration of the buildings and historic gardens is ongoing.[http://www.laposada.org/ Laposada.org: La Posada Hotel] A parking lot and field east of the hotel totaling {{convert|8|acres}} is being converted into a sculpture garden, orchard, and potager garden by the Winslow Arts Trust (WAT).{{Cite web |url=http://www.laposada.org/wat.html |title=The Winslow Arts Trust (WAT) |access-date=December 11, 2015 |archive-date=December 24, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151224233837/http://www.laposada.org/wat.html |url-status=dead }}

The Turquoise Room, the hotel's restaurant, was rated as one of the top 3 restaurants in the United States by Conde Naste in 2009.{{Cite web |url=http://www.laposada.org/turquoise-room.html |title=The Turquoise Room at La Posada Hotel |access-date=December 11, 2015 |archive-date=December 7, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151207151823/http://laposada.org/turquoise-room.html |url-status=dead }} The Tina Mion Museum exhibits Mion's contemporary paintings in the hotel's former {{convert|3000|ft2}} ballroom.{{Cite web |url=http://www.laposada.org/museum_contemporary.html |title=Laposada.org: Tina Mion Museum |access-date=December 11, 2015 |archive-date=December 7, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151207151915/http://www.laposada.org/museum_contemporary.html |url-status=dead }}

La Posada Hotel is mentioned in the Lost Dogs song "Goodbye Winslow" about traveling Route 66, on their album Old Angel.{{cn|date=August 2023}}

=Depot=

The Santa Fe Depot building serves as the present day Winslow Amtrak station. It was also renovated by the Winslow Arts Trust to house the Route 66 Art Museum, celebrating the culture of Winslow and the historic U.S. Route 66 in Arizona corridor.{{cite web|url=http://winslowartstrust.org/about |title=About Winslow Arts Trust |publisher=Winslowartstrust.org |date= |accessdate=2015-12-12}} In June 2016, work began to convert the depot section into a fine art museum.{{cite news|last1=Fisher|first1=Talaina|title=Work begins on a unique Route 66 fine art museum|url=http://tribunenewsnow.com/work-begins-on-a-unique-route-66-fine-art-museum/|accessdate=2017-01-28|work=The Tribune-News|date=2016-06-29}}

Downtown Winslow

Attractions near La Posada Hotel in adjacent historic Downtown Winslow include:{{Cite web |url=http://www.laposada.org/la-posada_destinations_downtown.html |title=Laposada.org: Attractions within walking distance of the La Posada Hotel |access-date=December 11, 2015 |archive-date=December 24, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151224111801/http://www.laposada.org/la-posada_destinations_downtown.html |url-status=dead }}

Old Trails Museum, in a 1920 bank building.
Snowdrift Art Space, in the 1914 Babbitt Brothers department store building.
Standin' on the Corner Park
Winslow Visitor Center, in the former 1917 Winslow Hubble Trading Post building.