32 Grand Old Railway Hotels Left Vacant Along Forgotten Routes

6. Castañeda Hotel (Harvey House), Las Vegas, New Mexico, USA: Harvey's Forgotten Southwestern Jewel

Another Fred Harvey masterpiece, the Castañeda opened in 1898 in Las Vegas, New Mexico (not Nevada!), a key stop on the Santa Fe Railway. This grand Mission Revival hotel, with its signature arches and expansive veranda, was a luxurious haven. Like many Harvey Houses, it suffered with the wane of rail travel, closing its doors as a hotel in 1948 and sitting largely vacant and deteriorating for over half a century. Its enduring shell, before recent restoration, whispered tales of frontier luxury on a route that time had largely passed by.