In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve been presenting these Fred Harvey menus in alphabetical order of the restaurant names, not in the order in which the facilities opened or how far they were from the Santa Fe Railway. With this menu we return to Fred Harvey’s roots of a station restaurant.
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Kansas City Union Station opened in 1914 and, since Santa Fe was one of its major tenants, Fred Harvey naturally had a restaurant there. In 1936, the restaurant was remodeled into the Westport Room (named after Westport Landing, the starting point for westbound travelers from Kansas City before the coming of the railroad). Continue reading