A fire destroyed the main building of Grand Canyon Lodge during the Great Depression on September 1, 1932, claiming no lives and leaving only stone ruins that stood undisturbed for four years. During the severe winter of 1936-37, work crews rebuilt the lodge on the standing limestone foundation. The redesigned Grand Canyon Lodge took on a strictly rustic character better suited to a winter climate, with cathedral ceilings and steeply pitched roofs, while preserving one of the original lodge’s chief attractions, the sun room, where millions have first viewed the grandeur of the Grand Canyon through its windows.