Came across a website claiming there was a Harvey House in Cascade, CO in the 1890s–which I had never heard of, and doesn’t show up in any company documents. With the help of Peter Hansen, editor of Railroad History, and Colorado Midland trainiac Tom VanWormer, we’ve discovered either three or four “new” Harvey locations in Colorado–which the company ran from 1890-1895, the years the then-troubled Santa Fe owned the Colorado Midland. So we can now report there were Harvey Houses and Harvey Girls in: Cascade, Idyllwild and Leadville, and the Cascade house at some point in the early 1890s moved to the Woodland Park depot. This brings the number of Harvey locations in Colorado to 10. Fred had one of his pre-Santa Fe eating houses in Hugo and then beginning in 1879, was in La Junta, Pueblo, Trinidad, Palmer Lake (briefly, a lunchroom from 1899-1902) and then in Colorado Springs. The last Colorado Harvey House, El Otero Hotel in La Junta, closed in 1948.

If anyone has any more information about these Colorado houses, or photos, please get in touch. Here’s a shot of the original La Junta eating house, opened in 1879. and the original website where I heard about this is http://sgcalligraphy.com/PikesPeakCountry052010.pdf

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