The Sagamore Resort
Lakeside view of the Sagamore Hotel
Nearest cityBolton Landing, New York
Built1882 (1882)
ArchitectMultiple
Architectural styleColonial Revival, Queen Anne
NRHP reference No.83001824 [1]
Added to NRHP21 July 1983 (1983-07-21)

The Sagamore is a Victorian-era resort hotel located on Lake George in Bolton Landing, New York. It occupies the private Green Island on Lake George. Since 1983, it has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

The Sagamore is a member of Historic Hotel of America,[2] the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

History

Lobby interior.

The Sagamore opened in 1883, financed by a number of prominent summer residents. It soon succeeded in attracting a wealthy clientele.

The hotel was named after "the Sagamore", an American Indian character in the James Fenimore Cooper novel The Last of the Mohicans (1826). Several of Lake George's nearby islands are also named after characters from the book.

Twice damaged by fire, in 1893 and 1914, the Sagamore was rebuilt in early 1921. A group of investors including Dr. William G. Beckers of New York City, one of the hotel's early stockholders, Adolph Ochs, the owner and publisher of the New York Times, Dr. Willy Myers, a New York City surgeon and William H. Bixby, a St. Louis industrialist, hired prominent local architect and structural engineer Robert Rheinlander to oversee the effort.[3]

Throughout its history, the Sagamore has been a social center for wealthy tourists and residents of Millionaires' Row, the stately mansions along Lake George's western shore.

The hotel eventually fell into disrepair before closing its doors in 1981.[4]

In 1983, one hundred years after construction of the first Sagamore, builder and real estate developer Norman Wolgin of Philadelphia purchased the hotel and restored it. In the same year, the resort was listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

The resort is currently managed by Portsmouth, New Hampshire-based Ocean Properties, which bought it in 2008.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
  2. ↑ Historic Hotel of America
  3. ↑ Tolles, Bryant Franklin (2003). Resort Hotels of the Adirondacks: The Architecture of a Summer Paradise, 1850-1950. ISBN 9781584650966.
  4. ↑ "Lake George Vacation Packages | the Sagamore Resort".
  5. ↑ Author unknown (2008-08-15). The Sagamore being sold. Albany Business Review, 15 August 2008. Retrieved from http://www.bizjournals.com/albany/stories/2008/08/11/daily45.html.
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