People sometimes forget that historic Dodge City, KS is a Harvey Heritage town, and the old Harvey House there, El Vaquero, was restored as a dinner theater and train station, with the Mary Colter-designed hotel lobby (which she presumably did over in the 1920s, since the hotel was built in the late 1890s before she started working for the company) fully replicated. It looks great.

We visited there during our research trip for the book a couple years ago–see the appendix for information on how you can visit–and I just got an email from a civic leader in Dodge asking me about coming to talk about the book at El Vaquero, which would be a great treat. More info as this develops. But here’s the building:

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