On Saturday, the Ash Fork Historical Society of Ash Fork, Ariz., will show off a detailed model of the town’s former Harvey House, the Hotel Escalante, reports the Prescott Daily Courier.
Historical society volunteers Wayne and Nancy Ulrich spent more than 1,100 hours over seven months creating the 8-foot by 9-foot model of the Escalante, which they built to scale.
The Escalante was widely considered one of the best Harvey Houses in the West.
It featured a dining room, reading room, curio shop, newsstand, barbershop and depot, Arizona’s Official Historian Marshall Trimble wrote in his book about his hometown of Ash Fork. The back sported a fountain and the town’s only grassy area, which attracted Trimble and his friends for football games until they were caught.
Alas, the Hotel Escalante was closed in 1951 and torn down in 1968.
The miniature will be on display from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the historical society’s museum, in the Arizona Department of Transportation building on Route 66 on the west end of town.