Grand Canyon National Park Laundry Building () . The Laundry was constructed in 1926 by the Fred Harvey Company to provide commercial laundry services for the El Tovar Hotel. Opened for use in 1927, the Laundry was built roughly the same time as the ATSF Power House to the east. Both buildings were designed in the same Rustic Swiss Chalet architectural vocabulary with cyclopean stone walls, brown-painted wood trim, shallow-pitched gable roofs and steel industrial sash. The east wall of the Laundry was intentionally left unfinished, apparently in anticipation of a future addition. After it ce
Grand Canyon National Park Laundry Building () . The Laundry was constructed in 1926 by the Fred Harvey Company to provide commercial laundry services for the El Tovar Hotel. Opened for use in 1927, the Laundry was built roughly the same time as the ATSF Power House to the east. Both buildings were designed in the same Rustic Swiss Chalet architectural vocabulary with cyclopean stone walls, brown-painted wood trim, shallow-pitched gable roofs and steel industrial sash. The east wall of the Laundry was intentionally left unfinished, apparently in anticipation of a future addition. After it ceased to function as a commercial laundry the building was converted into a storage facility. At various points non-contributing additions were constructed around the perimeter of the building.
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