The storied property has a history dating back even further, to 1607.
6:00 AM on Dec 27, 2021 CSTSanta Fe’s La Fonda on the Plaza hotel turns 100 in 2022, and it is hardly bashful about showing its age. Not only is the hotel buffed and polished for its centennial gala on Jan. 22; it’s proud to be even older than it looks. There has been an inn at this location on the Santa Fe plaza since 1607, giving the La Fonda bragging rights as a hotel corner even before America itself was born.
As part of its milestone year, the hotel has also opened the Terrace Inn at La Fonda, a hotel within a hotel. The space has 15 suites and rooms on the top two floors, each with a private patio or balcony; a dedicated check-in and concierge; and a private hot tub overlooking the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
The Terrace Inn suites at the La Fonda hotel include design touches such as window treatments with images commissioned for the hotel by Del Curfman, an artist from the Crow tribe. As legend goes, the hotel’s bar was a popular spot for the scientists, engineers and other employees of the secretive Manhattan Project in nearby Los Alamos, where the first atomic weapons were created.
The property was sold to Sam and Ethel Ballen of Dallas in 1968, beginning a strong connection between the two cities. The Ballens hired Kimball, another Dallas native, as an attorney for them in the late ‘80s. And in 2014, it was sold to the current ownership group, Cienda Partners, with most members, including Kimball, from Dallas.
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