Painted Desert Inn - Petrified Forest National Monument, Arizona

The Painted Desert Inn was first opened about 1920 and was purchased in 1935 by the National Park Service. After extensive remodeling, the inn reopened in 1940 under the management of the Fred Harvey Company, which was famous in the Southwest for providing hospitality services to tourists and travelers on the Santa Fe Railroad. The inn closed in 1963 and was scheduled for demolition in 1975 but was saved by a successful public campaign to save the hotel. The Painted Desert Inn reopened in 2006 as a museum following its restoration. The inn now appears as it would have in 1949.