Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Fred Harvey Company was the owner of the Harvey House chain of restaurants, hotels and other hospitality industry businesses alongside railroads in the Western United States. It was founded in 1876 by Fred Harvey to cater to the growing number of train passengers.
Frederick Henry Harvey (June 27, 1835 – February 9, 1901) was an entrepreneur who developed the Harvey House lunch rooms, restaurants, souvenir shops, and hotels, which served rail passengers on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, the Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe Railway, the Kansas Pacific Railway, the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway, and the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis.
The Harvey House Restaurant operated in Union Station from 1914 to 1968. Kansas City’s Harvey House restaurant seated 300 diners. In 1936, an additional dining room was remodeled and called the ...
Rejecting an initial plan to call it the "Bright Angel Tavern", the tradition of using Spanish names for Harvey House hotels was continued for the new hotel. Since the name of the first European to see the canyon, García López de Cárdenas , was given to an existing Harvey Hotel, the hotel was named after Pedro de Tovar , who had reported ...
A gallery wall features a framed loan the property was bought with; newspaper clippings; and pictures, including an early photo of the farmhouse and a circa-1905 black-and-white snapshot of a ...
Harvey Girls, employees of the Fred Harvey Company who worked in the "Harvey House" lunch rooms, restaurants, souvenir shops, and hotels; The Harvey Girls, a 1946 MGM musical by George Sidney; The Harvey Girls, a 1942 novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams; The protagonists of the television series Harvey Street Kids (also known as Harvey Girls Forever!
The current building is part of the first Fred Harvey House, of the Fred Harvey Company, which stood south of the Santa Fe railroad tracks until the early 20th century.. The existing structure was the original part of the Clifton Hotel that was erected to serve passengers of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway as a permanent eating station and hotel for passeng
The Enoch H. Jones House, also known as the Harvey House, is a historic house in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, U.S.. It was built as a log cabin in 1796 for Ezra Jones, his wife Margaret Hunt and their six children. [2] Their son Enoch served in the War of 1812 and married Eunice Macklin, with whom he had six children. [2]