Resort Hotels of the Adirondacks: The Architecture of a Summer Paradise, 1850-1950
"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"Tolles writes thoroughly but approachably on the hundred year heyday of these architectural dinosaurs, from the mammoth inns...to the merely modest."—Adirondack Life"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)