Harvey Houses
operated by Fred Harvey
Missouri 1
Locations
Cape Girardeau: Frisco News Stand
Joplin: Frisco Soda Fountain
Kansas City: Union Station
Marceline: Santa Fe Eating House
Archive photographs: University of Arizona Fred Harvey Collection
Cape Girardeau
Joplin
Frisco Station and Office Building
Looking SE, Main Street on right and 6th Street on left
Trains came up to the back of this unusual high-rise station located a block north of historic US Route 66. There was a Fred Harvey news stand, soda fountain and store here.
The Frisco Building, now the Frisco Station Apartments for senior citizens, was originally built in 1913 and was Joplin’s first modern high-rise office building. It served as a train depot until 1955. After years of gradually losing tenants, the building was completely vacant by 1987. By early 2001, the city was considering demolition until Carlson Gardner, Inc. began restoration of the Frisco Building in April of 2002. The address is 601 South Main Street.
Kansas City
Union Station from Pershing Road
Union Station looking NNE
Union Station with loading docks
Union Station looking ENE
Union Station with Washington Monument
Union Station looking NW
Union Station from Main Street Viaduct looking SW
Trackside of Union Station on other side of loading docks, looking east
Waiting Room looking north from Grand Hall
Waiting Room looking south towards Grand Hall
Grand Hall with Harvey shops, looking into Waiting Room
Grand Hall showing old Harvey news stands
marceline
Old wooden Santa Fe station showing Lunch Room to the right
Not yet visited – © 2009 Google Maps “Street View” looking west
In 1887 the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway began construction from Kansas City to Chicago. A location was chosen as a terminal or division point between these two cities, which was situated in North Central Missouri. By January 1888 the first town lot was sold in the newly platted division point of the railway, later to known as Marceline.
Marceline received its name at the request of one of the directors of the new railroad, whose wife bore the somewhat Spanish name of “Marcelina.” So with a change of the last vowel, this became the name of the new railroad city.
The Lunch Room, barely seen to the right, was north of the station. The “Harvey House Cookbook” lists Marceline as a Fred Harvey location in its Appendix, without dates. I have yet to find anything to back that up.
Newer brick Santa Fe station showing Lunch Room on the left
Not yet visited
This brick station was built in 1913 with a detached Lunch Room to the south. It was called the Santa Fe Lunch Room, and locally known as “The Beanery.” Both buildings still exist. They are located west of the tracks, immediately to the south of Santa Fe Avenue and north of California Avenue.
In 1998 several local benefactors purchased the station and grounds, that included the “Beanery.” The Santa Fe had gutted the building and used it for a storage shed for years. In 2009 a new roof, windows, doors were put on the building. Future work is planned as soon as finances allow.
The station now houses the Walt Disney Hometown Museum. The Museum, which has 100 years of Marceline News Papers dating from 1888 when the town was founded, has no evidence connecting Fred Harvey to this Santa Fe Lunch Room.
