After finding a parking lot near the plaza we headed off to get a bunch of photos. The first photo the La Fonda Hotel was an easy one for me to identify. I had just been to Santa Fe with my sister Jill and her daughter Jennifer and her daughter Sam in 2010, we shopped at the little gift shop that is the area in the front of the photo, and I recognized it right away. This was an extremely difficult photo (as were most of the photos in the Santa Fe Plaza area) to get without a huge number of obstructions such as traffic, signs and people. Historical records suggest that La Fonda on the Plaza sits on the oldest hotel corner in America. When Santa Fe was founded by the Spaniards in 1607, records show an inn — or fonda — was among the first businesses established at this location The current hotel was built in 1922 1925-1968 it was a Harvey House |