12.04.2005

La Fonda hotel...


...at the end of the Santa Fe trail. Outside then (1905), inside now.

According to the hotel website, when Santa Fe was founded in 1607, an inn, or la fonda, was established.

More than 400 years later, an inn still occupies the southeast corner of the Plaza.
Vintage photo: Museum of New Mexico, Neg. No. 13040.