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The Red Horse Station was originally built as a stage coach stop about 16 miles (26 km) south of the South Rim. When the railroad was extended to the South Rim, Ralph Cameron disassembled the post and moved it to the South rim and rebuilt it just to the west of the Buckey O'Neill Cabin in 1902, adding a wood frame second floor to the log first floor and calling it Cameron's Hotel. From 1907 it housed the park's post office. By the 1930s the Bright Angel operation needed renovation. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, which owned the Grand Canyon Railroad and the South Rim concessions, asked architect Mary Colter to design a replacement. Colter's initial designs resembled her Hermit's Rest and Lookout Studio structures, both located nearby. The Park Service did not approve of such extensive use of stone for the new lodgings, and Colter revised the design to wood frame construction, Colter kept the O'Neill Cabin and the Red Horse Cabin (removing its incongruous second floor) and replaced the tent cabins with new rustic cabins of log and local stone construction, completed in 1935. Source: Wikipedia

RALPH HENRY CAMERON (b. October 21, 1863 - d. February 12, 1953) was an early Arizona politician, lawman, and entrepreneur in Coconino County, and one of the early settlers and developers on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon.  He was the last Territorial Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives before Arizona statehood, serving 1908-1912.  He served one term as U.S. Senator from Arizona, 1921-1927.  He has been much reviled in later years for his efforts and lawsuits to keep the Grand Canyon from becoming a National Park.