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Several people were curious to see Ford Harvey’s famed second-floor office at KC Union Station, which has been nicely restored (or, more accurately, nicely never ruined in the first place) and is used as a conference room. Here’s a shot of me in front of the Mary Colter fireplace (which used to have four of those Indian heads, now two have mysteriously disappeared–anyone know where they are?). The black mimbreno pieces displayed on the mantle are not Ford’s and, for the most part, are the very good copies now available, not the originals. (FYI, mimbreno fans might be interested to know that El Tovar at the Grand Canyon now uses the black mimbreno exclusively in its dining room, to spectacular effect.)
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Thanks for the office photos, Stephen! So, on the Union Station view over the mantle, is Ford’s office the 2nd floor one in the far right front corner?
Yes. if you go into the front doors of the station, turn around and look up and to the left, you can see where the entrance to the offices were–and you can imagine Ford and Dave Benjamin and John Huckel standing up there on the walkway outside the office, looking down on all their eateries and stores and watching the twenties roar.
> …looking down on all their eateries and stores and watching the twenties roar.
And what a sight it must’ve been!