Hopi House
Mary Colter, one of a few female architects working at the time, debuted Hopi House - her first building - on New Year's Day 1905. Modeled after the buildings at Old Oraibi, an ancient village on the nearby Hopi Indian Reservation.
The building is organic and uneven: Thatched ceilings and wood beams appear as if made by ancestral Puebloans, timbers are peeling bark and branches still have their dried leaves!
Look closer at the beams to notice some are rounded and without bark. Can you imagine leaves on the branches from 1905???
Then we visited Kolb Studio.
From the brochure: Few buildings demonstrate the quirky personality traits of their original residents like the Kolb Studio. Brothers Ellsworth and Emery Kolb arrived at the Grand Canyon in 1902, one year after the train came to the park. In 1904, they went to work building their home and studio near the head of the Bright Angel Trail. The brothers became famous for their photographs of Grand Canyon visitors on mule rides, as well as for their explorations of the Grand Canyon on the Colorado River.
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