Resort Hotels of the Adirondacks: The Architecture of a Summer Paradise, 1850-1950

Tolles, Bryant F. Jr.

ISBN 10: 1584650966 / ISBN 13: 9781584650966

Edité par Univ. Press of New England, Hanover, NH, 2003

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4to, 253 pp.

N° de réf. du vendeur 089226

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Resort Hotels of the Adirondacks: The Architecture of a Summer Paradise, 1850-1950
• Éditeur: Univ. Press of New England, Hanover, NH
• Date de parution: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1584650966
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781584650966
• Reliure: hardcover
• Illustrateur: Profusely illustrated
• Édition: 1st.
• État de l'article: Fine copy in fine dust jacket
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Architecture

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Synopsis

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. 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.

À propos de l?auteur

BRYANT F. TOLLES, JR., is the Director of the Museum Studies Program and Professor of History and Art History at the University of Delaware. He has written and edited many books, including Summer Cottages in the White Mountains: The Architecture of Leisure and Recreation, 1870 to 1930 (UPNE, 2000), The Grand Resort Hotels of the White Mountains: A Vanishing Architectural Legacy (1998), and New Hampshire Architecture: An Illustrated Guide (UPNE, 1979). He resides in Wilmington, Delaware, and Center Sandwich, New Hampshire.