The Harvey House Railroad Depot, originally known as the Casa del Desierto, is a former Fred Harvey House. Casa del Desierto now functions as an unstaffed Amtrak passenger station (Southwest Chief) as well as housing Barstow city offices and two museums. The Casa del Desierto station and hotel was built in 1911 by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and replaced an earlier one built in 1885 that burned in 1908. It was designed by renowned Fred Harvey Company architect Mary Colter in a synthesis of Spanish Renaissance and Classical Revival architecture styles. (Text partly from Wikipedia)
