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Author: Bryant Franklin Tolles
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9781584650966
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn architectural study of the large Adirondack hotels that focuses on the cultural history of travel and tourism.
Author: Bryant Franklin Tolles
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Harvey H. Kaiser
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Published: 2003-07
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781567920734
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: Jane A. Barlow
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2004-06-01
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780815607748
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBig Moose Lake in the Adirondacks is the lively and well documented story of the growth of the lake side community made famous by the incident that inspired Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy. The rich history of the lake unfolds with stories of its early residents, hunters, and guides—Jim Higby, Billy Dutton, Henry Covey, and Bill Dartin—the late 1870s, of the lake's ownership by William Seward Webb, of the construction of the first private camp—Club Camp—in 1878, and the coming of hotels and resorts beginning in 1880 with the construction of Camp Crag. From a time when a telephone number was a simple "8F6" and the "pickle boat" brought supplies to camp, to more recent stories of exuberant waterskiing and motorboat regattas, the book includes a detailed history and descriptions of the camps and resorts on the lake, persons and celebrities who made the lake their year-round or seasonal home—including actress Minnie Maddern Fiske and artist David Milne—natural disasters and political events, recreation, and the work of the Big Moose Property Owners Association. This is the story of Big Moose Lake brought to life by more than 275 family photographs, antique postcards, and previously unpublished memoirs, oral histories, diary entries, and the personal correspondence of the men and women who settled the area and of those who call it home.
Author: Christine Jerome
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author follows a trip through the Adirondack Park taken a century earlier by George Washington Sears.
Author: Bryant Franklin Tolles
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781584655763
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA sweeping, richly illustrated architectural study of the large, historic New England coastal resort hotels
Author: Hallie E. Bond
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2006-06-30
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780815608226
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor over a century children have spent their summers at "sleepaway" camps in the Adirondacks. These camps inspired vivid memories and created an enduring legacy that has come to be a uniquely American tradition. In A Paradise for Boys and Girls: Children’s Camps in the Adirondacks, a complement to the Adirondack museum exhibit of the same name, the authors explore the history of Adirondack children’s camps, their influence on the lives of the campers, and their impact on the communities in which they exist. Drawing on the rich documentary and pictorial evidence gathered from the histories of 331 camps located in the Adirondacks from 1886 to the present, this collection chronicles the changing attitudes about children and childhood. Historian Leslie Paris details social change in "Pink Music: Continuity and Change at Early Adirondack Summer Camps." In the title essay of the book, Hallie Bond offers a history of Adirondack camping from the establishment of Camp Dudley on Lake Champlain in 1892 to the present. Finally, historian Joan Jacobs Brumberg concludes the collection with "A Wiser and Safer Place: The Meaning of Camping During World War II." Lavishly illustrated with historic photographs, the book includes a directory of Adirondack camps, with brief descriptive notes for each of the camps. The photographs and essays in this volume offer readers a richer understanding of this singular region and its powerful connection to childhood.
Author: Jeremy K. Davis
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2014-10-14
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 1625846045
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSome 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.
Author: Gladys Montgomery
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780926494473
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn 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
Author: Janet A. Null
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2017-06-01
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 1438466684
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFinalist for the 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Regional category The Adirondack Architecture Guide, Southern-Central Region provides a professional and insightful survey of the built environment of a unique area within New York's Adirondack Park. This book is the first field guide to the architecture of the Park, revealing the ordinary and the extraordinary, the remarkable buildings by prominent designers, as well as the hidden, unexpected gems few know exist. Based on more than seven thousand miles of fieldwork and years of research, the guide comprises more than seven hundred sites traversing the geographic range, socioeconomic strata, and historical span of the region from the late 1700s to the present. Organized according to clearly marked travel routes and fourteen tours on the ground and on the water, it features detailed maps and coordinates for each site, along with many beautiful photographs. Also included are eleven companion essays drawing on the expertise of professionals, local historians, and Adirondack residents that delve into the what, where, and why people built in the Adirondacks.
