Architecture
The El Tovar Apartment building is an excellent example of Spanish Moorish/Art Deco style. The El Tovar Apartments is a 4-and-a-half-story building, containing 73 apartments, constructed from orange brick with limestone trim, orange terra cotta accents, and a Spanish tile roof. The entrance is within the center pavilion, reached by a sidewalk flanked by carved lion figures. The name El Tovar is carved on a scroll above the entrance. Minaret-like towers project from the gabled roof, and there are arched openings at the corners of the front facade, chimney stack-like projections, pseudo-flying buttresses, and stylized crenellations.
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