Main entry:

Tolles, Bryant Franklin, 1939-

Title & Author:

Resort hotels of the Adirondacks : the architecture of a summer paradise, 1850-1950 / Bryant F. Tolles, Jr.

Publication:

Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, ©2003.

Description:

xxvii, 253 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-246) and index.
The resort hotel in America and its origins in the Adirondack region -- Lake George, Lake Champlain, and the east -- The western lakes -- The high peaks -- Henry J. Hardenbergh, Ludlow and Peabody, and the Delaware & Hudson hotels -- Masterpieces in the landscape : hotels by Wilson Brothers & Company of Philadelphia -- The last survivor : the Sagamore on Lake George -- Visions unrealized : resort hotels planned but never built.

Summary:

"During the 1850s, New York's Adirondack region saw the birth of a leisure world centered in the area's large resort hotels. These spectacular structures clearly reflected the dramatic social and technological changes that unfolded in the United States between 1850 and 1950. In his new book, Bryant F. Tolles, Jr., studies the architectural development of these extraordinary retreats in order to explore changing American attitudes toward nature and landscape, fashion and culture, transportation, and innovations of various sorts. He also delves into the resorts' eventual decline, which was rooted in their vulnerability as wooden structures as well as in the ever-changing preferences of their guests." "With over two hundred illustrations - many of them historic photographs, along with architectural plans, reproductions of printed "views," and recent shots of the remaining hotels and their related buildings - Resort Hotels of the Adirondacks captures the glorious spirit of a bygone world and reveals fundamental shifts in American cultural expectations. Tolles brings his chronicle up to the present by exploring the two surviving grand Adirondack resort hotels - the second Hotel Champlain (at Bluff Point on Lake Champlain) and the third Sagamore Hotel (at Bolton Landing on Lake George). The book concludes with a discussion of several imaginatively conceived but never-built resort hotels."--Jacket.

ISBN:

1584650966 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9781584650966 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Hotels New York (State) Adirondack Mountains History.
Resort architecture New York (State) Adirondack Mountains History.
Hôtels New York Adirondack, Monts Histoire.
Architecture et loisirs New York Adirondack, Monts Histoire.
Hôtels New York (État) Adirondack, Monts Histoire.
Architecture des lieux de villégiature New York (État) Adirondack, Monts Histoire.
Hotels.
Resort architecture.
New York (State) Adirondack Mountains.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 229481
Call No.: TX909 .T6 2003
Status: Available