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  Harvey House
The Harvey House in Florence, Kansas was originally known as the Clifton Hotel and was built on a beautiful spot in a wooded area, south of the tracks and southeast of the depot.
Harvey originated the oversize napkin (which is still used on the dining car) to accommodate the gentlemen who tucked them into their waistcoats.
The Catholic Church purchased the house from him and used it as the parsonage for the priests until the new parsonage was built in 1951.
members.tripod.com /harvey_house/harveyhouse.htm   (2030 words)

  
 The Harvey House   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The block on which the house sits was reserved for the Catholic Church in the early 1900's.
The house was occupied from 1919 to 1922 by the Frank Berton, a mining recorder, and his family.
The house was next occupied in 1948 by Gus Muirhead, chief clerk for White Pass.
www.yukonalaska.com /yhma/houses/harvey.htm   (283 words)

  
 House of Freaks - Biography - AOL Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Fueled by stripped-down blues and folk-rock songs propelled by Hott's muscular drumming and the chock-a-block guitar work of Harvey, House of Freaks (the name was drawn from an old circus poster) was formed in the duo's hometown of Richmond, VA, in 1986.
Harvey and Hott pulled up stakes and moved to Los Angeles, where they scored a contract with Rhino Records, releasing their debut single, "Bottom of the Ocean," in late 1987, with the album Monkey on a Chain Gang following in early 1988.
However, Cakewalk was a critical and commercial disappointment, and the group went on hiatus, though both Harvey and Hott later emerged as members of Gutterball, an alt-rock supergroup fronted by Steve Wynn that released two albums in 1993 and 1995.
music.aol.com /artist/house-of-freaks/4515/biography?albumid=0   (399 words)

  
 Welcome to Harvey’s guest house   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Harvey’s guesthouse is owned and operated by the Flood family.
The house is renowned for its friendly atmosphere, quality service and comfortable rooms, not to mention our famously delicious breakfast.
The house served as a tenement building for many years, and was considered to be located in an "undesirable" part of Dublin.
www.harveysguesthouse.com /aboutus.htm   (445 words)

  
 Harvey House Hotels and Restaurants Along Route 66
Harvey soon found that the men he hired to work in his restaurants were as wild as the west was.
In order to qualify as one of the “Harvey Girls,” the women had to have at least an eighth grade education, good moral character, good manners, and be neat and articulate.
Harvey continued to improve his service until his death in 1901, at which time his sons took over the company.
www.legendsofamerica.com /66-HarveyHouse.html   (1125 words)

  
 Preservation Online: Story of the Week Archives: Full Speed Ahead
"Harvey Houses deserve to be saved for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that the buildings are not worn out and useless," says Sacramento resident Dick Friedman, who created a Web site on the subject.
Harvey Houses were the airport hotels and restaurants of their time, serving meals to sooty passengers lugging wood trunks and hatboxes.
Another Harvey House, the 1911 Casa del Desierto, was restored in 1996 by its owner, the city of Barstow.
www.nationaltrust.org /Magazine/archives/arch_story/012304.htm   (1451 words)

  
 The House of Mews in Print
At House of Mews, 944 S. Cooper Ave., where the operation moved in October 1995, about 40 cats roam the premises and more than 60 others are caged, waiting for someone willing to open their hearts to the felines.
According to Harvey, the House of Mews, located at 944 S. Cooper in the space formerly occupied by the plant shop Botanic, is one of a kind.
Harvey first became a cat care volunteer when she was a customer at Goodwin's nursery, a Germantown plant outlet that had become home to a number of strays.
www.houseofmews.com /articles.html   (2377 words)

  
 The Harvey House Concept
Frederick Henry Harvey was appalled by the conditions travelers endured in the United States as compared to his home country, England, where there was a long tradition of hospitality on the roads.
A "Harvey girl" signed a contract for a year's work, during which time she promised not to marry.
In 1901, Harvey died, but the restaurants were a fixture on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe route until the 1940s, when faster trains and the increasing popularity of cars began to make them obsolete.
www.cuisinenet.com /glossary/harvey.html   (287 words)

  
 HARVEY HOUSE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Fred Harvey immigrated from England at the age of 15 and became a restauranteur.
As the train approached, the engineer blew the whistle which alerted the staff at the Harvey House to begin preparing the first course.
Fred Harvey advertised for young ladies "of good character, attractive and intelligent." He paid them nice salaries, free room and board, free train travel and a free ticket back home when their contract was up.
www.freeenterpriseland.com /HARVEY.html   (419 words)

  
 WORSHIP house.01 - DJ Harvey
DJ Harvey is one of the Hottest underground players of the last 10 years, one of the original scratch DJ's, Harvey went on to become one of the pioneers of the UK house scene.
Harvey's long involvement in and love of music began at the tender age of 13 when he and two older friends formed a new wave band called 'Ersatz' (Cheap Substitute) who recorded their first track in 1978.
Again Ministry regulars came to appreciate Harvey at his best doing the 6-10am 'graveyard shift' playing a melange of classics, deep jazzy house and general leftfield vibes that the loyal band of music lovers and serious groovers have come to regard as part of the evening that is their own.
www.worshiprecs.com /djharvey.html   (1374 words)

  
 Fred Harvey Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Harvey's meals were served in sumptuous portions that provided a good value for the traveling public; for instance, pies were cut into fourths, rather than sixths, which was the industry standard at the time.
In a mythology that has grown around the Harvey Houses, these female employees are said to have helped to "civilize the American Southwest." This legend found its highest expression in The Harvey Girls, a 1942 novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams, and, more notably, the 1946 MGM musical which was inspired by it.
Harvey initially balked at the suggestion that in-transit dining facilities be added to all Santa Fe trains operating west of Kansas City.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harvey_House   (1893 words)

  
 About Fred Harvey
It was an immediate success, which led to other Harvey House Restaurants, and later Harvey House Hotels along the entire Santa Fe route.
When he died in 1901, there were 47 Harvey House restaurants, 15 hotels, and 30 dining cars on the AT&SF Railroad.
The Harveys filled their home with the finest furniture, art objects, and comforts of the era.
www.firstcitymuseums.org /1history.html   (398 words)

  
 Harold Harvey, Penlee House Gallery and Museum, Cornwall UK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Harold Harvey was one of the few Cornish-born artists associated with the Newlyn Colony and the Lamorna Artists.
Harold Harvey studied with Norman Garstin, and in the 1890s he travelled to Paris to study at the Atelier Julian.
Harvey had many solo shows and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1898 and then regularly from 1907 to 1941 (although he was never elected as an associate of the Royal Academy).
www.penleehouse.org.uk /artists/harold-harvey.htm   (202 words)

  
 Kansas Harvey Houses
One of the larger Harvey Houses in Kansas, similar is style to Chanute, KS.
Not only is the Harvey House (opened 1880, closed 1937) gone, torn down for a parking lot, but the station, a magnificent limestone building, burned down in 1999, after having been vacant for over a decade.
The Harvey House and the station were torn down in 1965 according to local sources to build a new office.
www.harveyhouses.net /states/kansas/kshouses.html   (1024 words)

  
 The Harvey House (Reading Room) in Waynoka, Oklahoma
In 1889 Harvey was granted the exclusive right to operate all of the railroad-owned eating houses west of the Missouri River anywhere on the Santa Fe system.
The Harvey House in Waynoka opened in July, 1910, and began serving passengers on the Santa Fe main rail line from Chicago to Los Angeles.
Fearing demolition of the beautiful historic Harvey House, the Waynoka Historical Society began the task of seeking funds to restore the Waynoka Depot and Harvey House.
www.waynoka.org /harveyhouse.php   (620 words)

  
 Fred Harvey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Frederick Henry Harvey (June 27, 1835–February 9, 1901) was an entrepreneur who developed the Harvey House lunch rooms, restaurants, souvenir shops, and hotels, which served rail passengers on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, the Gulf Coast and Santa Fe Railway, the Kansas Pacific Railway, the St.
Harvey was the head of the Fred Harvey Company, which owned and operated the restaurant chain.
When he died (of intestinal cancer), there were 47 Harvey House restaurants, 15 hotels, and 30 dining cars operating on the Santa Fe Railway.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fred_Harvey   (292 words)

  
 Transcript - KTWU's Sunflower Journeys 2002 - The Harvey House
The house is currently operated by a group called the Levenworth museum association and they are in the process of restoring the house after its been offices and cubiculed off for 40 or 50 years So there is a lot of restoration to be done.
Narrator: Fred Harvey advertized in Eastern newspapers for "young women of good character, attractive and inteligent, age 18 to 30" And as Harvey girls decended upon the West, many romances, and hence, marriages develeoped as young men courted the hard-working young women.
Mark Bureman: One of the things that ti was always said, that Harvey not only brought good food to the restaurant, but he brought a lot of wives to the west and so a lot of the Harvey girls ended up settling down on teh railroad towns as the new wives of the local residents.
ktwu.washburn.edu /journeys/scripts/2002/1507a.html   (1096 words)

  
 Harvey Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Isaac J. Harvey's house was built in 1868.
In the Harvey house after dinner the ladies would go in the front parlor and the men in the back parlor.
Harvey had it shipped to them it was brought by ship and was left on the beach until Mr.
schools.monterey.k12.ca.us /~lagunita/Harvey.html   (228 words)

  
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When everybody in the car got out their lunch baskets with the paper cover and the red bordered napkins, it was an interesting sight....The bouquet from those lunches hung around all day, and the flies wired ahead for their friends to meet them at each station.
Morse, a general superintendent with a taste for unsalted butter and underdone steak, saw eyetooth to eyetooth with Harvey and in 1876 the first Harvey restaurant came into being in the railroad's Topeka depot and office building.
The Harvey House is an asset to the community as it is somethingof historical value saved for posterity.
skyways.lib.ks.us /museums/harveyhouse   (3012 words)

  
 Harvey Family Murders Hit the Blogosphere - The Crime library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Harvey and his wife Kathryn, owner of the popular World of Mirth novelty shop, were to host a chili cook-out for their friends that day.
Indie stands for "independent," and the term began to be used in the late 1980's to describe an eclectic breed of rock and roll that grew out of the alternative music popular in the early part of that decade.
The Elvis costume doesn't allow one to see that Harvey was a youthful, handsome man. In photos in various newspaper articles about the murders, he and the slender, pretty Kathryn Harvey look like what they apparently were bright, creative, and responsible young parents and professionals.
www.crimelibrary.com /news/original/0106/0301_harvey_family_blogs.html   (1051 words)

  
 Harvey Girls
Fred Harvey decided there was a better way, and established a series of restaurants on the Santa Fe lines.
The women had to be of good moral character, have at least an eighth grade education, display good manner and be neat and articulate to work in his restaurants.
Harvey Girls were the women who brought respectability to the work of waitressing.
www.oerm.org /pages/Harveygirls.html   (243 words)

  
 Seligman, AZ (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-2.cs.princeton.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The doctor's house from the Havasu was sold off and moved to the corner of Indian School and Cedar to become the home of the current Postmaster and her family, while the Havasu's reading room was moved to the school to become the Biology Building, its pink brick exterior handsomely restored by Phoenix architects.
Harvey was not only a great marketer but also a gracious host and restaurateur.
The Seligman Harvey House, "Havasu" When the Sant...
seligmanharveyhouse.blogspot.com.cob-web.org:8888   (3523 words)

  
 The Harvey Campbell House   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
At one time the most noted resident was a nurse who worked at Sister’s Hospital and preformed nurse’s assistance work out of her apartment caring for live-in elderly patients.
Built for Harvey Campbell who was associated with Tootle Hosea Dry Goods House, he was one of seven sons of Charles Campbell.
The house shows off its segmental arched openings with carved straight-sided stone hood molds and prominent dropped keystones.
www.oldhouses.org /images/206n19.html   (242 words)

  
 Harvey House, Barstow
The Harvey House in Barstow is one of the dining rooms and boarding houses set up for rail travelers by Fred Harvey.
The dining establishments featured the Harvey Girls, who served food and chatted with guests.
Harvey House is located across the street from the train station.
www.planetware.com /barstow/harvey-house-us-ca-hvhs.htm   (87 words)

  
 Cool Things, Harvey House Gong, Kansas State Historical Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Harvey House restaurants that developed—including ones at Florence, Newton, Hutchinson, Dodge City and Lakin, as well as many along the Santa Fe lines—became known for quality ingredients, reasonable prices, immaculate dining rooms, and efficient waitresses.
This gong from the Topeka Harvey House was used to alert waitresses when a train was arriving, as well as attract passengers to the dining room.
In 1975 this gong from the Topeka Harvey House was given to the Kansas State Historical Society by R.E. LaBounty, a Fred Harvey executive who once worked as a busboy at Topeka.
www.kshs.org /cool3/harveygong.htm   (527 words)

  
 The Velvet Rope Forums: R.I.P. Bryan Harvey-House of Freaks and Gutterball
His house is maybe 2 miles from me, and his band NRG Krysys just played last night, I think.
Bryan Harvey was a noted musician with the band NrG Krysys and also worked in technology for the Henrico County school system.
Friends and neighbors of the Harvey family said Stella spent New Year's Eve at a friend's house and returned home yesterday about 10 a.m., when she was greeted at the door by her mother.
velvetrope.com /ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=UBB1&Number=727836&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=2&fpart=1&vc=1   (1296 words)

  
 Harvey (Spanish House)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The building houses 32 students from all class years and with all levels of fluency.
Rooms are coed by alternating room and include singles, doubles, divided doubles, and quads.
The house is staffed by a resident faculty member and a graduate assistant.
www.oberlin.edu /campusmap/html/harvey.html   (70 words)

  
 quotations from Harvey House, Quaker mentor
Harvey and his wife Gerry were both visionaries- she the mystic, he the one who would remold society.
Most who knew Harvey in Pacific Yearly Meeting remember his dancing and playing the recorder (badly, they say, but then he took it up in his 70s).
When he wrote it, in the 1960s and 70s, he was most concerned about the warlike assumptions on which our culture is based, and he wanted to show us that there was another way.
members.aol.com /quakernature/Harveys_Bible.html   (1125 words)

  
 Restoring the Historic Coin Harvey House of Huntington, West Virginia
William Hope Harvey (1851-1936) was a writer whose economic theories once entralled thousands of readers.
Harvey's sturdy pamphleteering had great influence on the Populist party.
Among Harvey's other works are Coin on Money, Trusts, and Imperialism (1899) and The Remedy (1915).
www.coinharvey.com /pages/coinharvey.htm   (309 words)

  
 A Harvey House Home Page
Harvey's view that improvement was needed in the food department.
Harvey met Charlie Morse, President of the fledgling Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway.
I'd like the site to be a clearinghouse of information about the Harvey Houses, with a section on each surviving Harvey House including photographs and a short essay on each.
www.harveyhouses.net   (248 words)

  
 Harvey Guest House   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Welcome to the Harvey Guest House, a home retaining the ambiance of the 1950's.
Prior to construction the site served as a location for anti-aircraft "Bofors" guns during WWII to protect the ship dry dock.
The home was later redesigned by well known artist Ruth Harvey and displays many of her works.
www.harveyguesthouse.com   (97 words)

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