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.
Highly readable, lavishly illustrated (including a color section),
solidly researched, and well indexed, with an extensive
bibliography, Resort Hotels of the Adirondacks is both
authoritative and absorbing.-- "New York History: Quarterly Journal
of the NY State Historical Association"
Mr. Tolles has assembled a tremendous array of vintage photographs,
as well as floor plans, and he writes with skill, clarity and a
historian's discipline. . . His footnotes are extensive, and the
bibliography alone is a trove of useful Adirondack information and
perspective. This meaty work will be referred to far into the
future.-- "Lake George Magazine"
This attractive and informative book chronicles the architecture of
Adirondack resort hotels . . . the text and photographs will help
readers realize how amazing these resort hotels were and are.--
"The Sunday Gazette (Schenectady, NY)"
Tolles writes thoroughly but approachably on the hundred year
heyday of these architectural dinosaurs, from the mammoth inns...to
the merely modest.-- "Adirondack Life"
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