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Lookout Studio is a stone building that Mary Colter designed in 1914 on the edge of the South Rim, west of Bright Angel Lodge in Grand Canyon Village. Built of local limestone so that it seems to grow out of the cliff, it served as a photographic studio and viewpoint; today it is a gift shop with terraces and telescopes facing the canyon.
The Bright Angel Trail descends from the South Rim at Grand Canyon Village towards the Colorado River, following a natural break in the cliffs once used by the Havasupai. Switchbacks pass rest houses at 1.5 and 3 miles and reach Havasupai Gardens after about 7 km and 930 metres of descent; most day hikers turn back well before that.
Hopi House is a building in the form of a Hopi pueblo, opposite El Tovar Hotel on the South Rim in Grand Canyon Village. Mary Colter designed it for the Fred Harvey Company, and Hopi builders raised it in 1905 from local stone and timber, modelled on the village of Old Oraibi. It has always sold Native American arts and crafts, as it still does today.
Kolb Studio is the wooden house and photography studio that the brothers Emery and Ellsworth Kolb built from 1904 on the rim at the head of the Bright Angel Trail, in Grand Canyon Village. They photographed mule riders setting off down the trail and filmed their 1911 boat journey down the Colorado. The restored building holds art and history exhibitions and a bookshop.
The Yavapai Museum of Geology stands on the rim at Yavapai Point, east of Grand Canyon Village. The stone building, designed by Herbert Maier and opened in 1928, was sited by geologists for studying the canyon's rock layers. Large windows frame the view, and exhibits and a relief model explain how the canyon formed; rangers give geology talks.
Mather Point is a viewpoint on a rocky promontory of the South Rim, a short walk from the Grand Canyon Visitor Center and usually the first view of the canyon for visitors arriving from the south entrance. Railed terraces reach out over the drop, looking across to the North Rim. It is named after Stephen Mather, the first director of the National Park Service.
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