The present hotel opened in the 1920s on a site long associated with lodging and was shaped by regional architecture, railroad tourism, art, hospitality labor, and Harvey Company management.
Completed in the nineteenth century for the Sisters of Loretto, the chapel brought a Gothic Revival stone vocabulary into Santa Fe and later became famous for its unusual spiral staircase.
The long adobe building on Santa Fe Plaza served successive Spanish, Mexican, territorial, and state governments and now anchors the New Mexico History Museum campus.
San Miguel Chapel occupies a site associated with the early colonial community and has been repeatedly damaged, rebuilt, and restored, making it a record of worship, conflict, craft, and preservation.