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| architect = [[Mary Colter]] et al
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'''Bright Angel Lodge''' is a hotel complex at the South Rim of the [[Grand Canyon]] in [[Grand Canyon National Park]], [[Arizona]]. Designed by architect [[Mary Jane Colter]], the lodge is a complex of cabins around a central lodge building, directly on the edge of the canyon. The rustic lodge complex is a major contributing structure in the [[Grand Canyon Village Historic District|Grand Canyon Village National Historic Landmark District]].
'''Bright Angel Lodge''' is a hotel complex at the South Rim of the [[Grand Canyon]] in [[Grand Canyon National Park]], [[Arizona]]. Designed by architect [[Mary Jane Colter]], the lodge is a complex of cabins around a central lodge building, directly on the edge of the canyon. The rustic lodge complex is a major [[contributing building]] in the [[Grand Canyon Village Historic District|Grand Canyon Village National Historic Landmark District]]. In 2022, Bright Angel Lodge is also a member of [[Historic Hotels of America]], an official program of the [[National Trust for Historic Preservation]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bright Angel Lodge & Cabins: History|url=https://www.historichotels.org/us/hotels-resorts/bright-angel-lodge-and-cabins/?from=rezconsole |access-date=2022-12-14 |publisher=[[Historic Hotels of America]] |language=en}}</ref>


==History==
==History==
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[[File:Bright Angel Cabin 6160-63 NPS1.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Bright Angel cabin]]
[[File:Bright Angel Cabin 6160-63 NPS1.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Bright Angel cabin]]
By the 1930s the Bright Angel operation needed renovation. The [[Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway]], which owned the Grand Canyon Railroad and the South Rim concessions, asked architect [[Mary Colter]] to design a replacement. Colter's initial designs resembled her [[Hermit's Rest]] and [[Lookout Studio]] structures, both located nearby. The Park Service did not approve of such extensive use of stone for the new lodgings, and Colter revised the design to wood frame construction, Colter kept the O'Neill Cabin and the Red Horse Cabin (removing its incongruous second floor) and replaced the tent cabins with new rustic cabins of log and local stone construction, completed in 1935. Colter took particular pains to integrate the new complex into the landscape, using a scale model to study the design.<ref name=bahl1 /><ref name=nrhpinv3>{{cite web|last=Chappell|first=Gordon|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory – Nomination Form: Grand Canyon Village Historic District|url={{NRHP url|id=75000343}}|publisher=National Park Service|accessdate=17 November 2011|date=May 10, 1975}}</ref>
By the 1930s the Bright Angel operation needed renovation. The [[Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway]], which owned the Grand Canyon Railroad and the South Rim concessions, asked architect [[Mary Colter]] to design a replacement. Colter's initial designs resembled her [[Hermit's Rest]] and [[Lookout Studio]] structures, both located nearby. The Park Service did not approve of such extensive use of stone for the new lodgings, and Colter revised the design to wood-frame construction, Colter kept the O'Neill Cabin and the Red Horse Cabin (removing its incongruous second floor) and replaced the tent cabins with new rustic cabins of log and local stone construction, completed in 1935. Colter took particular pains to integrate the new complex into the landscape, using a scale model to study the design.<ref name=bahl1 /><ref name=nrhpinv3>{{cite web|last=Chappell|first=Gordon|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory – Nomination Form: Grand Canyon Village Historic District|url={{NRHP url|id=75000343}}|publisher=National Park Service|accessdate=17 November 2011|date=May 10, 1975}}</ref>


==Description==
==Description==
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==Historic designation==
==Historic designation==
The Bright Angel Lodge and cabins are significant contributing structures in the [[Grand Canyon Village Historic District|Grand Canyon Village National Historic Landmark District]]. The historic district was expanded in 1982 to include the Bright Angel Lodge and its cabins. It had initially been left out of the nomination as it had not yet reached the 50-year age threshold, but the 1982 nomination made plain that the Bright Angel complex had such exceptional significance that it was worthy of waiving the 50-year requirement.<ref name=nrhpinv3/><ref name=nrhpinv>{{cite web|last=Scott|first=Michael P.|title=National Historic Landmark Nomination: Grand Canyon Village|url={{NHLS url|id=95001226}}|publisher=National Park Service|accessdate=16 November 2011 |author2=Chappell, Gordon |author3=Jackson, Robbyn |author4=Donahoe, Jamie |author5=Begley, Susan |author6=Carr, Ethan|date=September 13, 1996}}</ref>
The Bright Angel Lodge and cabins are significant contributing structures in the [[Grand Canyon Village Historic District|Grand Canyon Village National Historic Landmark District]]. The historic district, created in 1975 without Bright Angel Lodge being included, was expanded in 1982 to include the Bright Angel Lodge and its cabins, according to the 1996-dated National Historic Landmark Nomination document.<ref name=nrhpinv/> It had initially been left out of the nomination as it had not yet reached the 50-year age threshold, but the 1982 nomination made plain that the Bright Angel complex had such exceptional significance that it was worthy of waiving the 50-year requirement.<ref name=nrhpinv3/><ref name=nrhpinv>{{cite web|last=Scott|first=Michael P.|title=National Historic Landmark Nomination: Grand Canyon Village|url={{NHLS url|id=95001226}}|publisher=National Park Service|access-date=16 November 2011 |author2=Chappell, Gordon |author3=Jackson, Robbyn |author4=Donahoe, Jamie |author5=Begley, Susan |author6=Carr, Ethan|date=September 13, 1996}}</ref>

==Climate==

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|Jan record high F = 63
|Feb record high F = 64
|Mar record high F = 66
|Apr record high F = 74
|May record high F = 85
|Jun record high F = 91
|Jul record high F = 92
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|Oct record high F = 82
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|Jan high F = 38.4
|Feb high F = 39.8
|Mar high F = 45.7
|Apr high F = 53.2
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|Oct mean F = 44.6
|Nov mean F = 33.8
|Dec mean F = 28.0
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|Jan low F = 16.5
|Feb low F = 17.9
|Mar low F = 21.6
|Apr low F = 27.4
|May low F = 34.4
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|Jul low F = 47.6
|Aug low F = 46.4
|Sep low F = 40.3
|Oct low F = 31.3
|Nov low F = 22.3
|Dec low F = 17.1
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|Feb snow inch=26.2
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|Apr snow inch=10.8
|May snow inch=2.8
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|Jul snow inch=0.0
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==References==
==References==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20111114073032/http://grandcanyonhistory.clas.asu.edu/sites_southrim_brightangelcabins.html Bright Angel Cabins] at ''Nature, Culture and History at the Grand Canyon''
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20111114073032/http://grandcanyonhistory.clas.asu.edu/sites_southrim_brightangelcabins.html Bright Angel Cabins] at ''Nature, Culture and History at the Grand Canyon''
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* {{GNIS|2500220}}
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All of the following are filed under Grand Canyon Village, South Rim, Grand Canyon National Park, Coconino County, AZ
All of the following are filed under Grand Canyon Village, South Rim, Grand Canyon National Park, Coconino County, AZ:
* {{HABS |survey=AZ-136 |id=az0218 |title=Bright Angel Lodge |link=no}}, also individual cabins:
* {{HABS |survey=AZ-136 |id=az0218 |title=Bright Angel Lodge |link=no}}, also individual cabins [https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/item/az0443/], [https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/item/az0444/], [https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/item/az0445/], [https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/item/az0446/], [https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/item/az0447/], [https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/item/az0449/], [https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/item/az0450/], [https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/item/az0451/], [https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/item/az0452/], [https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/item/az0453/], [https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/item/az0454/], [https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/item/az0455/], [https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/item/az0456/], [https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/item/az0457/] and [https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/item/az0448/]
** [https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/item/az0443/ Cabin No. 6160-6163]
** [https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/item/az0444/ Cabin No. 6164-6167]
** [https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/item/az0445/ Cabin No. 6168-6169]
** [https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/item/az0446/ Cabin No. 6170-6173]
** [https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/item/az0447/ Cabin No. 6174-6177]
** [https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/item/az0449/ Cabin No. 6178]
** [https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/item/az0450/ Cabin No. 6179-6182]
** [https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/item/az0451/ Cabin No. 6183-6184]
** [https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/item/az0452/ Cabin No. 6185-6187]
** [https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/item/az0453/ Cabin No. 6191-6192]
** [https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/item/az0454/ Cabin No. 6193]
** [https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/item/az0455/ Cabin No. 6194-6195]
** [https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/item/az0456/ Cabin No. 6196-6197]
** [https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/item/az0457/ Cabin No. 6198]
** [https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/item/az0448/ Bright Angel Lodge, Shelter]


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[[Category:Hotels in Arizona]]
[[Category:Buildings and structures in Grand Canyon National Park]]
[[Category:Buildings and structures in Grand Canyon National Park]]
[[Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1935]]
[[Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1935]]
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[[Category:National Register of Historic Places in Coconino County, Arizona]]
[[Category:National Register of Historic Places in Coconino County, Arizona]]
[[Category:Hotel buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Arizona]]
[[Category:Hotel buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Arizona]]
[[Category:Historic Hotels of America]]

Latest revision as of 01:50, 6 May 2024

Bright Angel Lodge
Main lodge building
Bright Angel Lodge is located in Arizona
Bright Angel Lodge
LocationGrand Canyon Village, Arizona
Coordinates36°03′26″N 112°08′28″W / 36.05722°N 112.14111°W / 36.05722; -112.14111
Built1935
ArchitectMary Colter et al
Architectural styleRustic
Part ofGrand Canyon Village Historic District
NRHP reference No.75000343

Added to NRHP November 20, 1975

Boundary increase October 24, 1995
Significant dates
Added to NRHP1982
Designated NHLDCPFebruary 18, 1987

Bright Angel Lodge is a hotel complex at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon in Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. Designed by architect Mary Jane Colter, the lodge is a complex of cabins around a central lodge building, directly on the edge of the canyon. The rustic lodge complex is a major contributing building in the Grand Canyon Village National Historic Landmark District. In 2022, Bright Angel Lodge is also a member of Historic Hotels of America, an official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.[1]

History

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The first accommodation at the location was established by James Thurber in 1896 at the head of the Bright Angel Trail leading into the canyon. Thurber ran a stagecoach line from the Grandview area to this new location to the west in 1896, building a small wood-frame hotel. At about the same time, Buckey O'Neill built his cabin nearby, calling it O'Neill's Camp. Thurber acquired the O'Neill cabin at about the time O'Neill died in Cuba during the Spanish–American War. Thurber expanded the operation, establishing a tent camp for tourists and calling the complex the Bright Angel Hotel and the Bright Angel Camps.[2]

Thurber sold the Bright Angel operation to Williams, Arizona hotelier Martin Buggeln, in time for the Grand Canyon Railroad to be completed to the South Rim in September. The railroad, which claimed most of the lands at the South Rim, including the Bright Angel site, cooperated with Buggeln while the railroad's El Tovar Hotel was being built immediately to the east of the Bright Angel Hotel, then bought out Buggeln when the new hotel was completed in 1905. The railroad renovated the older hotel and built cabins to replace the tents.[2] In contrast to the lodgings at the El Tovar, which were marketed as a destination hotel, the Bright Angel facilities were aimed at a middle-class market.[3]

The Red Horse Station was originally built as a stage coach stop about 16 miles (26 km) south of the South Rim. When the railroad was extended to the South Rim, Ralph Cameron disassembled the post and moved it to the South rim and rebuilt it just to the west of the Buckey O'Neill Cabin in 1902, adding a wood frame second floor to the log first floor and calling it Cameron's Hotel. From 1907 it housed the park's post office.[4]

Bright Angel cabin

By the 1930s the Bright Angel operation needed renovation. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, which owned the Grand Canyon Railroad and the South Rim concessions, asked architect Mary Colter to design a replacement. Colter's initial designs resembled her Hermit's Rest and Lookout Studio structures, both located nearby. The Park Service did not approve of such extensive use of stone for the new lodgings, and Colter revised the design to wood-frame construction, Colter kept the O'Neill Cabin and the Red Horse Cabin (removing its incongruous second floor) and replaced the tent cabins with new rustic cabins of log and local stone construction, completed in 1935. Colter took particular pains to integrate the new complex into the landscape, using a scale model to study the design.[2][5]

Description

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The lodge is a large structure with a simple shallow-pitched gable roof. The roof overhangs at the main entry to form a gabled porch supported by peeled log posts. Colter used shed-roofed appendages to create a layered effect for the mass of the main lodge. Interior finishes included hand-adzed logs, adobe and local limestone. The stone fireplace materials reproduce the strata found in the Grand Canyon along the Bright Angel Trail in their correct sequence from bottom to top.[6] The semi-detached cabins are laid out in the space between the lodge and the canyon's rim, with some directly overlooking the canyon. Cabins were furnished with antiques and reproductions hand-picked by Colter. The lodge's cocktail lounge features murals by Hopi artist Fred Kabotie.[6]

Historic designation

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The Bright Angel Lodge and cabins are significant contributing structures in the Grand Canyon Village National Historic Landmark District. The historic district, created in 1975 without Bright Angel Lodge being included, was expanded in 1982 to include the Bright Angel Lodge and its cabins, according to the 1996-dated National Historic Landmark Nomination document.[7] It had initially been left out of the nomination as it had not yet reached the 50-year age threshold, but the 1982 nomination made plain that the Bright Angel complex had such exceptional significance that it was worthy of waiving the 50-year requirement.[5][7]

Climate

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Climate data for Grand Canyon Village, Arizona
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °F (°C) 63
(17) 		64
(18) 		66
(19) 		74
(23) 		85
(29) 		91
(33) 		92
(33) 		90
(32) 		88
(31) 		82
(28) 		66
(19) 		68
(20) 		92
(33)
Mean daily maximum °F (°C) 38.4
(3.6) 		39.8
(4.3) 		45.7
(7.6) 		53.2
(11.8) 		63.6
(17.6) 		74.3
(23.5) 		78.1
(25.6) 		74.8
(23.8) 		68.2
(20.1) 		57.1
(13.9) 		44.6
(7.0) 		39.1
(3.9) 		56.4
(13.6)
Daily mean °F (°C) 27.9
(−2.3) 		28.9
(−1.7) 		33.9
(1.1) 		40.5
(4.7) 		49.4
(9.7) 		58.4
(14.7) 		63.5
(17.5) 		61.2
(16.2) 		54.7
(12.6) 		44.6
(7.0) 		33.8
(1.0) 		28.0
(−2.2) 		43.7
(6.5)
Mean daily minimum °F (°C) 16.5
(−8.6) 		17.9
(−7.8) 		21.6
(−5.8) 		27.4
(−2.6) 		34.4
(1.3) 		41.4
(5.2) 		47.6
(8.7) 		46.4
(8.0) 		40.3
(4.6) 		31.3
(−0.4) 		22.3
(−5.4) 		17.1
(−8.3) 		30.4
(−0.9)
Record low °F (°C) −24
(−31) 		−23
(−31) 		−8
(−22) 		−4
(−20) 		10
(−12) 		22
(−6) 		26
(−3) 		24
(−4) 		18
(−8) 		6
(−14) 		−11
(−24) 		−22
(−30) 		−24
(−31)
Average precipitation inches (mm) 3.38
(86) 		3.67
(93) 		3.10
(79) 		1.57
(40) 		0.73
(19) 		0.54
(14) 		1.87
(47) 		2.74
(70) 		1.93
(49) 		1.76
(45) 		2.02
(51) 		2.86
(73) 		26.17
(666)
Average snowfall inches (cm) 32.2
(82) 		26.2
(67) 		26.4
(67) 		10.8
(27) 		2.8
(7.1) 		0.1
(0.25) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.1
(0.25) 		3.8
(9.7) 		12.3
(31) 		21.7
(55) 		136.4
(346.3)
Source: NOAA[full citation needed]

References

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  1. ^ "Bright Angel Lodge & Cabins: History". Historic Hotels of America. Retrieved December 14, 2022.
  2. ^ a b c Anderson, Michael F. (2008). "Bright Angel Hotel & Lodge". Arizona State University/Grand Canyon Association. Archived from the original on November 1, 2011. Retrieved November 15, 2011.
  3. ^ Gerke, Sarah Bohl (2008). "Bright Angel Cabins". Arizona State University/Grand Canyon Association. Archived from the original on November 14, 2011. Retrieved November 15, 2011.
  4. ^ Gerke, Sarah Bohl (2008). "Red Horse Station/Cameron's Hotel". Nature, Culture and History at the Grand Canyon. Arizona State University/Grand Canyon Association. Archived from the original on November 17, 2011. Retrieved November 17, 2011.
  5. ^ a b Chappell, Gordon (May 10, 1975). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory – Nomination Form: Grand Canyon Village Historic District". National Park Service. Retrieved November 17, 2011.
  6. ^ a b NRHP nomination, continuation sheet, p. 8
  7. ^ a b Scott, Michael P.; Chappell, Gordon; Jackson, Robbyn; Donahoe, Jamie; Begley, Susan; Carr, Ethan (September 13, 1996). "National Historic Landmark Nomination: Grand Canyon Village". National Park Service. Retrieved November 16, 2011.
Red Horse Cabin, at Bright Angel Lodge.
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