La Fonda Hotel

100 E. San Francisco St., Santa Fe, NM
Phone: 505-982-5511

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The 1920s La Fonda Hotel was a Fred Harvey House Hotel until 1968 when Sam and Ethel Ballena bought the hotel. In 2014 when Jennifer Kimball and her brother Philip Wise bought it. This is a luxury hotel with high end rates, accommodations and services.

It's hard to get a good photo of the hotel because of traffic. It is on the corner of the Santa Fe Plaza. A hotel or Inn has occupied this spot at the southwest corner of the famed Santa Fe Plaza since the early 1600s.

The sign is rather understated.

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Vintage Advertising Highlights

LA FONDA IN OLD SANTA FE, N.M.
Fred Harvey's Famous La Fonda is one of the worlds most unusual hotels. Facing the century old plaza on the site of the original Fonda (Inn) of Santa Fe trail days, the building sweeps back in terraces like the nearby pueblos.

NOTE: This looks to be from at least the mid-60s judging by the cars in the image.
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Photo(s): 2012, 2015