{"nrhp_refnum":"83001824","name":"Sagamore Hotel Complex","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Green Island and Federal Hill","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bolton Landing","county":"Warren County","state":"NY","lat":43.569061986000065,"lon":-73.65424229608209,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-07-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A seasonal resort complex on Green Island and Federal Hill at Bolton Landing, Warren County, New York, developed between 1883 and 1930. It includes the 200-room third Hotel Sagamore, summer cottages, service buildings, and a separate 266-acre golf course with clubhouse.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the complex is a significant example of resort development in the Adirondack-Lake George region. Its buildings show how the Green Island resort evolved through three successive hotels, from a planned summer colony into a larger resort. The dramatically sited hotel, golf course and clubhouse evoke genteel resort life on Lake George.","narrative":"Green Island, a wooded rise just off the west shore of Lake George, holds a resort complex that grew in three phases between 1883 and 1930. The Green Island Improvement Company, formed in 1882 by wealthy seasonal visitors, planned a hotel with private shore-lot cottages whose owners would dine at the hotel. The first hotel opened in 1883 and burned in 1893. A second, opened in 1896, burned in 1914. The present 200-room hotel was begun in 1922 and enlarged in 1930 in a Colonial Revival design by Boston architect Harold Field Kellog. Surviving cottages, stable, annex, icehouse and garage show the resort's earlier development. Donald J. Ross designed an eighteen-hole golf course with a Tudor Revival clubhouse in 1927. The hotel hosted the 1954 National Governors' Conference and closed in 1980. The nominated area covers 302 acres.","period_of_significance":"1882-1930","architect_builder":"Various; Wilson Brothers and Company (first hotel and Wapanak and Nirvana cottages); Harold Field Kellog (1930 hotel expansion); Donald J. Ross (golf course)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival (hotel); Queen Anne and Tudor Revival (cottages and clubhouse)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Hotel closed in 1980 after code violations; present use listed as vacant. Hotel interior much altered since the 1950s, and the golf course is partly overgrown.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:42.350102-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/83001824.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001824/53fe1081b9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001824/53fe1081b9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"UpstateNYer","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SagamoreHotelLakeGeorge.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">UpstateNYer</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SagamoreHotelLakeGeorge.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322799","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sagamore","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7762027"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/warren-county/sagamore-hotel-complex-83001824/"}