| Description |
1 online resource (xxvii, 253 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), map |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-246) and index. |
| Summary |
Annotation 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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />Tolles has utilized an authoritative array of sources, including guidebooks, local histories, newspaper articles, maps, county and town records, business records, guest correspondence, and diary entries. His comprehensive history creates a detailed picture of luxury in a resort setting and enriches our understanding of American life and culture during a period of radical change. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
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| Note |
Print version record. |
| Local Note |
EBSCOhost Art and Architecture Complete |
| Subject |
Hotels -- New York (State) -- Adirondack Mountains -- History.
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Resort architecture -- New York (State) -- Adirondack Mountains -- History.
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Hotels. (OCoLC)fst00961767
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Resort architecture. (OCoLC)fst01095627
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New York (State) -- Adirondack Mountains.
(OCoLC)fst01239497
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tolles, Bryant Franklin, 1939- Resort hotels of the Adirondacks. Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, ©2003 1584650966 9781584650966 (DLC) 2003003879 (OCoLC)51799223 |
| ISBN |
1584650966 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9781584650966 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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