The American Resort Hotel in the nineteenth century: Historical New Hampshire / Nancy H. Ferguson.

Title:

The American Resort Hotel in the nineteenth century: Historical New Hampshire / Nancy H. Ferguson.

Alternative Title:

The American grand resort hotel in the nineteenth century.

Author:

Ferguson, Nancy H.

Call Number:

977.8 N5321h

Publication Information:

Concord, NH: New Hampshire Historical Society, 1995.

Physical Description:

p. [6] - 21.

Source:

Vol. 50, No. 1-2 (Spring-Summer 1995) Historical New Hampshire.

Description:

New means of transportation, changes in American attitudes toward nature, and connections between architectural styles and cultural aspirations all affected the evolution of American resort hotels. The first large-scale American resort was Saratoga, New York, whose mineral springs became known to non-Native Americans in 1767. With the development of steamboat service on the Hudson River, Saratoga Springs became the most popular American resort town of the 19th century. In the last quarter of the 19th century, the railway opened up the American West and South to resort development, and innovative examples of resort architecture flourished, notably in present-day Yellowstone and Glacier national parks, where rustic imagery was employed, and in Florida and the Southwest, where Spanish and Native American imagery was exploited.

Language:

English.

Subjects:

Resorts History. , Hotels History.

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