Author: Bryant Franklin TollesPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584650966
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
An architectural study of the large Adirondack hotels that focuses on the cultural history of travel and tourism.
Resort Hotels of the Adirondacks
Author: Bryant Franklin TollesPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584650966
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
An architectural study of the large Adirondack hotels that focuses on the cultural history of travel and tourism.
Paul Smith's Adirondack Hotel and College
Author: Neil SurprenantPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738562902
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
From 1859 to the present, the name Paul Smiths has meant different things to visitors and residents of the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York. In the 19th century, the name was synonymous with a grand hotel on the shores of Lower St. Regis Lake and the wilderness guide who was its founder. In the early 20th century, the hotel business expanded to include land sales, a railroad, a telephone company, and the Paul Smiths Electric Power and Light Company, which became the first electric provider in the region. After World War II, Paul Smiths College was founded to provide quality liberal arts and technical associate-level degrees to returning veterans and recent high school graduates. Today Paul Smiths College attracts students from across America to the only baccalaureate-degree-granting institution in the six-million-acre Adirondack Park.
Great Camps of the Adirondacks
Author: Harvey H. KaiserPublisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9781567920734
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The author does a thorough job in explaining the beginnings of rustic architecture and why it has a permanent place in the culture. The mix of social background and the history of the early Adirondack camps provides a designers guidebook.
The Grand Resort Hotels of the White Mountains
Author: Bryant Franklin TollesPublisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This carefully researched, profusely illustrated volume identifies and explores some thirty outstanding resort complexes, explaining their architectural details, their social histories, and the often surprising stories behind their lovely wooden facades.
Summer by the Seaside
Author: Bryant Franklin TollesPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584655763
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A sweeping, richly illustrated architectural study of the large, historic New England coastal resort hotels
An Adirondack Passage
Author: Christine JeromePublisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The author follows a trip through the Adirondack Park taken a century earlier by George Washington Sears.
Adirondack Hotels and Inns
Author: Donald R. WilliamsPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738557694
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Adirondack region evolved over years from vast, impassable wilderness to a land of logging camps, tanneries, sawmills, and small settlements. By the end of the 19th century, the area grew again, becoming a tourist destination famed for its great hotels, quaint inns, cottages, and rustic cabins. The hotels and inns spread throughout the Adirondacks, beginning after the Civil War and continuing during the Gilded Age between World Wars I and II. The region drew the rich and famous, as well as workers and families escaping the polluted cities. This volume contains 200 vintage images of those famed accommodations that catered to years of Adirondack visitors. Most of the buildings seen in this book no longer exist, having been destroyed by fires, the wrecking ball, or simply forgotten over time. Adirondack Hotels and Inns provides a timeless look at the vacation retreats of the past.
Lost Ski Areas of the Northern Adirondacks
Author: Jeremy K. DavisPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625846045
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Some of the northern Adirondacks' most beloved ski areas have sadly not survived the test of time despite the pristine powder found from the High Peaks to the St. Lawrence. Even after hosting the Winter Olympics twice, Lake Placid hides fourteen abandoned ski areas. In the Whiteface area, the once-prosperous resort Paleface, or Bassett Mountain, succumbed after a series of bad winters. Juniper Hills was "the biggest little hill in the North Country" and welcomed families in the Northern Tier for more than fifteen years. Big Tupper in Tupper Lake and Otis Mountain in Elizabethtown defied the odds and were lovingly restored in recent years. Jeremy Davis of the New England/Northeast Lost Ski Areas Project rediscovers these lost trails and shares beloved memories of the people who skied on them.
An Elegant Wilderness
Author: Gladys MontgomeryPublisher:
ISBN: 9780926494473
Category : Adirondack Mountains Region (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An Elegant Wilderness: Great Camps and Grand Lodges of the Adirondacks, 1855 - 1935 by Gladys Montgomery, recounts the story of the private retreats of the Gilded age industrial rich who traveled north from New York City to experience wilderness. Light
The Fulton Chain
Author: Charles E. HerrPublisher:
ISBN: 9780692745304
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Using his Weekly Adirondack articles as a blueprint, Charles Herr presents the first general history of the Fulton Chain region in almost seventy years. Readers will learn about the beginnings of Old Forge and Inlet, Benjamin Harrison's visits, construction of the Fulton Chain Railroad and Raquette Lake Railway lines, the steamboats, mail boats and pickle boats, as well as the first major hotels of Inlet and Old Forge. Also covered is early town politics and the building of roads.