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100 1 $aTolles, Bryant Franklin,$d1939-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82025086
245 14 $aThe grand resort hotels of the White Mountains :$ba vanishing architectural legacy /$cby Bryant F. Tolles.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aBoston :$bD.R. Godine,$c1998.
263 $a9508
300 $a263 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations (some color) ;$c29 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 251-259) and index.
505 00 $gCh. 1.$tThe Precursors: Rosebrooks, Crawfords, Fabyans and the Early Highway Hotels --$gCh. 2.$tRailroad Development and the Pre-Civil War Hotels --$gCh. 3.$tThe Prosperity of the 1860s and Hotel Expansion --$gCh. 4.$tThe Grand Resort Hotel Concept Is Securely Rooted: The Seventies --$gCh. 5.$tThe Maturation of the Building Type: From the Eighties to World War I --$gCh. 6.$tThe Hotel That Blew Down: The Metallak, the Surviving Record, and the Symbol --$gCh. 7.$tThe Full Evolution of the Building Type: The Second Glen House, the New Profile House, and the Mountain View House --$gCh. 8.$tParagons of Style and Elegance: The Mount Washington Hotel at Bretton Woods and The Balsams at Dixville Notch --$gApp. A.$tA List of Pre-1930 White Mountain Hotels Accommodating Fifty or More Guests --$gApp. B.$tLists of Known Pre-1900 Paintings, Printed Views, and Illustrated Maps Depicting White Mountain Hotels.
520 $aThis is the first book to fully explore the architecture, as well as the related economic, social, and cultural history, of the grand resort hotels of New Hampshire's scenic White Mountains. These beautiful buildings, situated in one of America's oldest and most heavily visited vacation and recreation locales, were the first structures in America designed exclusively for the tourist industry.
520 8 $aThis 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.
520 8 $aThe book also presents the dramatic evolution of building types, from the first rural highway inns of the Rosebrooks, Crawfords, and Fabyans in the 1820s to the initial railroad hostelries and the grand hotels of the 1850s, an era culminating in the great resort complexes at the end of the nineteenth century.
650 0 $aHotels$zWhite Mountains (N.H. and Me.)$xHistory.
650 0 $aResort architecture$zWhite Mountains (N.H. and Me.)$xHistory.
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