A hardcover copy of the book "Mary Colter - Architect of the Southwest," by Arnold Berke, well-known as the executive editor of Preservation magazine at the National Trust for Historic Preservation.  The elegant volume features 320 pages and over 170 images including new color photographs by Alexander Vertikoff.

The buildings designed by Mary Colter at Grand Canyon National Park—the Watchtower, Hopi House, Lookout Studio, Phantom Ranch, and more—are admired by millions of visitors a year, and for decades they influenced architecture in the national parks. Many travelers are also astonished by Colter’s beautifully restored La Posada in Winslow, Arizona—a Spanish Colonial Revival “hacienda” and the last of the great Harvey House hotels—and her other atmospheric structures and interiors along the Santa Fe Railway from Chicago to Los Angeles.

This extraordinary book is the first in-depth look at Colter (1869-1958), a once-obscure but now famous pioneer of American design. It weaves together three stories—the early-20th-century career of a woman in a man’s field; the creation of an architecture drawn from regional landscape and Native American and Hispanic cultures; and the opening of the Southwest for tourism by the railroads. Enjoy these stories, beautifully illustrated with color photography and period photographs, in this now hard-to-find hardback copy of an award-winning best-seller.