Victorian resorts and hotels : essays from a Victorian Society autumn symposium / edited by Richard Guy Wilson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wilson, Richard Guy, 1940-

Victorian Society in America.

Series:

Nineteenth century (Victorian Society in America) ; v. 8, no. 1-2.

Nineteenth century, 0097-5184 ; v. 8, no. 1-2 (1982)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hotels--United States--History--19th century.

Hotels.

United States.

History.

Resorts--United States--History--19th century.

Resorts.

Amusement parks.

Architecture, Victorian.

Health resorts.

Hotels--Furniture, equipment, etc.

Physical Description:

127 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : Victorian Society in America, [1982]

Contents:

Nineteenth Century American resorts and hotels / Richard Guy Wilson.

Foreign travellers and American hotels / John Maass.

Hotel design in the work of Isaiah Rogers and Henry Whitestone / Elizabeth Fitzpatrick Jones.

Heath restoring resorts on the New England coast / Marie L. Ahearn.

On the verandah: resorts of the Catskills / Betsy Blackmar and ELizabeth Cromley.

Wicker: the vacation furniture / Katherine B. Menz.

Cracker resorts / Lee H. Warner.

The True Carlsbad of America: the Hotel Broadwater and Natatorium of Helena, Montana / Patricia Dean.

The Hotel Del Coranado and Tent City / Ann Halpenny Kantor.

Meet me in Dreamland: the early development of amusement parks in America / Richard W. Flint.

From informality to pomposity: the resort casino in the later 19th Century / Richard Guy Wilson.

Rustic connotations: furnising national park hostelries / Rodd L. Wheaton.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Published as Nineteenth Century: Vol. 8, Nos. 1-2, 1982.

Includes bibliographic notes.

ISBN:

0892570636

OCLC:

8833260