Fred Harvey was the first one." Diana Clanin is a docent at La Fonda in Santa Fe, one of a handful of Fred Harvey hotels still in operation. "Everywhere there was a city almost, there was a Harvey ...

Mr. Harvey, was the proprietor of sixty-five restaurants and lunch counters along the Santa Fe Railroad and several hotels from Chicago to Los Angeles. Mr. Fried examines how Fred Harvey’s ...

The Fred Harvey system, famed for the fine food with which it has lined the stomachs of Western rail travelers, last week got a new president. Byron Schemerhorn Harvey Jr. is a grandson of the ...

How important was Fred Harvey? Stephen Fried’s “Appetite for America” says that as the nation’s first popular champion of fine dining, he invented chain restaurants, chain hotels and chain ...