From Sunday Morning, CBS News; February 24, 2019
Last fall, a cheer went up as a grand hotel from a bygone era got a little closer to opening its doors. For Allan Affeldt, restoring La Castañeda, in Las Vegas, New Mexico, is a labor of love. “When the hotel was built in 1898, there were a dozen transcontinental passenger trains stopping here every day,” Affeldt said.
The Castañeda’s main dining room was one of the biggest and fanciest in New Mexico – and is today one of the last vestiges of a vast network of hotels and restaurants that once stretched across the southwest, all built by the Fred Harvey Company.