GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK
Hopi House (1904)
Designed by Mary Jane Colter, this
structure is modeled after Hopi pueblos at Oraibi, Arizona. Rectangular
in plan with many stepped terraces reinforcing the Pueblo style, massive
stone walls are covered with adobe plaster, concrete floors are rough finished
to resemble mud floors, and ceilings are made of saplings and grasses resting
on peeled logs. Ethnographically accurate, the Hopi House reflected the
contemporary scholarly interest in Southwest archeology that promoted the
1906 Act for the Preservation of American Antiquities.17
Photograph
by Laura Soulliere.
|
