BRYANT F. TOLLES, JR., is Professor Emeritus of History and Art History at the University of Delaware, where he served as Director of the Museum Program from 1984 to 2006. He has written and edited many books, including Resort Hotels of the Adirondacks (UPNE, 2003), Summer Cottages in the White Mountains (UPNE, 2000) and The Grand Resort Hotels of the White Mountains (1998).
A profusely illustrated work, including floor plans and photographs
from the glory years, Summer by the Seaside is replete with text
that examines the origins, evolution, and gradual decline of the
resort hotel phenomenon and its architecture on the New England
coastline, along with its social, cultural, and economic history.--
"Antiques Journal"
I imagine most readers will buy the book on the basis of its very
tangible beauty. It is a lovely picture book, but it is also a
solid, readable and first-rate piece of scholarship that will be a
standard reference for years . . . the book is big and beautiful,
and well done on all levels.-- "Maine Sunday Telegram"
The illustrations in Bryant F. Tolles Jr.'s Summer by the Seaside:
The Architecture of New England Coastal Resort Hotels, 1820-1950
give a powerful sense of what has been lost. Vintage photographs,
etchings, and architectural plans whisk readers along the New
England coast, past one elegant structure after another, some of
them veritable Versailles, only in Queen Anne or Second Empire
style, with verandas, shingled towers, and rows of top-floor
dormers. It's enough to make a preservationist weep, particularly
one familiar with what's replaced them.-- "Down East"
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