39-663: Congress Park could refer to: Canfield Casino and Congress Park , in Saratoga Springs, New York Congress Park, Denver , a neighborhood in Denver, Colorado Congress Park (Metra) , a train station in Brookfield, Illinois a park in Gothenburg, Sweden Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
78-493: A Lithuanian-born woodcarver considered to be the "Master Carer" of the carousel world. The carousel was originally installed in Kaydeross Amusement Park on Saratoga Lake in 1910. In 1987 the park was being sold for development, with the carousel being intended to be sold at auction, however local volunteers raised the money to purchase it. After restoration, the carousel was opened to the public in 2002. It
117-454: A few years afterwards and bought the spring property. He began to bottle and sell Saratoga water, promoting the iodine he had discovered in the water as a curative. This success allowed him to improve the site and create the crescent-shaped lawn, as well as drain some of the swampy areas. By the middle of the century the city and the hotel were one of the country's most popular resorts, due to its railroad access. It lost some business during
156-550: A half stories high. It has a similar window treatment to the first story of the main block, and a more elaborate cornice, also with central segmented pediment. The gambling room has many of its original interior details, including mirrors and statuettes. To the north is the dining room and kitchen wing – built in 1902-1903 and designed by Clarence Luce – a 93-by-58-foot (28 by 18 m) steel frame brick structure. At either end are stained glass windows depicting horses in different historical periods. The dining room roof
195-528: A one-mile (1.6 km) stretch of Broadway and North Broadway, from the vicinity of Congress Park to a small portion that overlaps into the Town of Greenfield just north of the city limits near Skidmore College , where the street becomes Glen Mitchell Road. It is divided into residential and commercial sections by the intersection with Van Dam Street roughly midway between its two termini. Some portions of neighboring blocks and streets are included. The south end
234-590: A partnership in the Saratoga Clubhouse, and bought it outright in 1894 for $ 250,000. ^nventory Nomination Form Canfield invested an estimated $ 800,000 in enhancing the building and the grounds of Congress Park to bring them up to the standards of the top European establishments. In 1902-3, he added a sumptuous dining room to the back of the Clubhouse fitting it with stained glass windows and an early form of air conditioning. He ordered marble statuary for
273-501: A public library – built in 1949 and expanded in 1967, now the headquarters of Saratoga Arts – and the Trask Memorial Fountain. The park and the grounds of the casino were combined into Congress Park in 1913. In 1914, Henry Bacon and Charles Leavitt were engaged to do further work on the park's landscaping. Broadway Historic District (Saratoga Springs, New York) The Broadway Historic District
312-472: A similarly Greek-inspired domed pavilion. The Congress 3 spring to the south was bottled and distributed worldwide in the 19th century, and the Freshwater Spring is still popular with city residents. The water from the springs has been channeled into streams and fountains. One surrounds The Spirit of Life , a statue by Daniel Chester French memorializing Spencer Trask , a great benefactor of
351-585: Is a 17-acre (6.9 ha) site in Saratoga Springs , New York, United States. It was formerly the site of the Congress Hotel (also called Congress Hall), a large resort hotel, and the Congress Spring Bottling Plant , as well as Canfield Casino , which together brought Saratoga Springs international fame as a health spa and gambling site. At the peak of its popularity it was a place where the wealthy, major gamblers and stars of
390-452: Is a buffer between the developed commercial areas at the south end of downtown Saratoga Springs, and the residential neighborhoods on the east and west. Many of the surrounding areas are also included in the city's other historic districts. The Broadway Historic District is just to the north, with the East and West Side districts on either side. Union Avenue is also a historic district out to
429-504: Is at the junction of Broadway (also US 9 / NY 50 ) and Spring Street ( NY 9P ). Some of the properties on Spring to the east (where the district is bordered by the East Side Historic District and Washington Street ( NY 29 ) as far as Woodlawn Avenue to the west are included. Both sides of Broadway (120 feet (37 m) wide at this point) are included to the junction with Church Street ( NY 9N 's southern terminus on
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#1732786747871468-442: Is located along Broadway in Saratoga Springs , New York , United States . It has a twofold character. The southern section is the commercial core of the city, with many of its important public and private buildings, most intact from its peak days as a resort town in that era. North Broadway is a residential neighborhood with many large Victorian houses built by frequent visitors to the town and its spas and racetrack . In 1979 it
507-420: Is of riveted arches supported on columns. Its barrel vaulting has octagonal coffers . The parquet flooring is original, and the early air conditioning system of wall vents and the open coffer windows still works. From 1959 until into the first decade of the 21st century Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney and Marylou Whitney , and then after the former's death, Marylou hosted a racing season opening gala at
546-507: Is one of only 6 carousels carved by Illions remaining in the world, and the only double-row carousel. It is open from the beginning of May through Columbus Day each year, and for special events. The carousel is in need of restoration, and a campaign has been started to raise the necessary funds. Congress Spring was named in 1792 when it was visited by a group that included two members of the newly established U.S. Congress . A decade later, in 1803, an entrepreneur named Gideon Putnam bought
585-654: The Civil War when its Southern clientele could not visit, but during that time former heavyweight boxing champion John Morrissey opened the Saratoga Race Course , giving the city another major tourist attraction. He also began the Saratoga Clubhouse, which would later become the Canfield Casino, after the war, in 1866. In 1866, Morrissey was elected to Congress as a Democrat who was part of New York City's Tammany Hall political machine . He
624-462: The Whitneys , Vanderbilts and J. P. Morgan 's, but gambling legends like Diamond Jim Brady and John Warne "Bet-a-Million" Gates , and prominent entertainers like Gate's girlfriend Lillian Russell and impresario Florenz Ziegfeld . This socially distinctive era, regarded as the city's golden age, ended in 1907 when reformers succeeded in banning gambling in the city. Canfield retired and sold
663-479: The Fourth Street junction at the city line. The houses opposite Skidmore's main entrance are included; at the city line the west boundary begins. Within this area delineated are 137 acres (55 ha) and over 160 buildings. In the northern half these are residential; to the south they are predominantly commercial with a few churches near the south end. High Rock Spring was known to the native peoples of
702-718: The Italian gardens in the northeast corner of Congress Park. The elegant atmosphere made the cream of society feel welcome to bet their money on the Clubhouses's many games of chance. Canfield was recognized as the King of the Gamblers and Saratoga Springs was seen as the American Monte Carlo. Canfield kept the Clubhouse going until 1907. The clientele during this period included not only members of wealthy families like
741-592: The Saratoga area who founded the Yaddo writers' colony. It sits on the south side of the large lagoon in the park. Two vases , Night and Day , by Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen , are positioned on the lawn in front of the casino. On the north side of the park, just inside the entrance off the intersection of Spring and Putnam streets, is a carousel which has roots extending back to Coney Island, where its 28 horses were carved in 1904 by Marcus Charles Illions ,
780-617: The acre (2,000 m ) around the spring and built a hotel for guests, the Congress Hotel or Congress Hall, in what was still a largely unsettled frontier. Two years later he bought the 130 acres (53 ha) around the original acre and laid out plans for the town of Saratoga Springs. This led to two enlargements of the hotel. He died in 1812 while yet another was underway. The new town competed with nearby Ballston Spa and other spa towns in Pennsylvania and Virginia for visitors. It
819-416: The area and had long been visited by them for its supposed curative powers. In 1643 Father Isaac Jogues became the first European visitor to see it. Mohawks reportedly carried Sir William Johnson there on a stretcher in 1767, and his recovery went so well that he visited it again later several times. It was well known enough that George Washington tried to buy it in 1783. Gideon Putnam , considered
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#1732786747871858-530: The casino which was often over the top and known for Marylou's grand entrances. The basin-shaped park contains Grecian pavilions around the various springs, Italian gardens , groves of trees and lawns. A Doric columned pavilion has been built over the site of the original Congress Spring, with water piped in from another spring. To its west is the Columbian Spring tapped by Gideon Putnam, the founder of Saratoga Springs, restored in 1983 and topped with
897-466: The country for the horse races, whereas those on North Broadway were from further south in the Capital District and primarily came to Saratoga Springs to take advantage of the baths and get away for the summer. Today that area is home to a number of notable owners and trainers in thoroughbred racing . The district's historic character is preserved by the city's Design Review Commission,
936-411: The district about 16 acres (6.5 ha) smaller A short, narrow street, named East Congress Street – because it extends Congress Street from Broadway – runs across the park from east to west. Stone walls set off the park from the nearby street. The section north of the road is dominated by the casino and the parkland around it, the section to the south is primarily hilly parkland. The park
975-523: The east as it becomes Broadway Avenue for a block, then Rock Street and Greenfield Avenue. The west boundary follows Wiswall Lane to include houses on the east side of Woodlawn (Some of the areas on the other side are in the West Side Historic District ). The east boundary gradually follows rear property lines until First Street, where it runs down the middle of Bryant Street, including the houses on its west side except for some near
1014-590: The entertainment world mingled. The park's artwork includes a statue by Daniel Chester French and landscape design by Frederick Law Olmsted , among others. The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) as the Casino-Congress Park-Circular Street Historic District in 1972, and was then declared a National Historic Landmark in 1987. The later listing excluded some of
1053-421: The founder of Saratoga Springs, bought the land around Congress Spring to the south in 1802. He built the first hotel there and eight years later laid out a plan for the city's development. Broadway was always intended to be the main commercial street, and others built hotels on land sold to them by Putnam and his descendants. The coming of the railroad in the 1830s accentuated this, as it paralleled Broadway just to
1092-451: The front center as well. Inside the main building, the entrance opens onto a central hall with staircase. The office and library are on the west. To the east the original dining room opens onto the gambling room. Private gambling rooms were upstairs, and living quarters on the third floor. The east wing, built in 1871, used for gambling when the casino was constructed, is a two-story, three-by-five- bay structure with front windows one and
1131-549: The hotel and grounds to the city four years later, in 1911. The Pure Food and Drug Act hurt sales of bottled Saratoga Water, and the year after buying from Canfield, the city bought the Congress Hall hotel and bottling plant and demolished them . In 1912, the city bought Congress Spring Park and tore down the Congress Hotel and the Congress Spring Bottling Plant. Their sites would later host
1170-494: The park itself. It is bordered by Spring Street on the north and Circular Street down to its intersection with Park Place. It follows the 300-foot (91 m) elevation contour line on the west, excluding some of the buildings on Broadway southwest of the park, and then joins Broadway south of Union Avenue , back to its northwest corner at Spring Street. The original historic district included some houses on Circular and Spring Streets and Whitney Place. Their removal from it made
1209-567: The property outside the park and halved the overall size of the district. Congress Park is a City of Saratoga Springs park, bounded by Broadway, Spring Street, and Circular Street. The Canfield Casino buildings, built in 1870, 1871 and 1902–03, house the Saratoga Springs History Museum , an art gallery and spaces which host public and private events. Gambling was ended by reformers in 1907. The district boundaries are curved and irregular, generally following those of
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1248-450: The racetrack. The two major historical resources on the property are the casino and the park. The former are the only surviving buildings from the resort era; the latter has many notable art objects in addition to its landscaping. The casino's main building was built in 1870; its architect is unknown. It is a three-story building faced in brick on an exposed basement, topped by a flat roof, and bordered by an ornate bracketed cornice . On
1287-401: The south (front) facade the brick around the doorway and at the corners is laid to look like rusticated stone. A belt course divides the first two floors. All three stories have sandstone window trim with a different treatment — segmented pediments on the first, triangular ones on the second and rectangular on the third. A free-standing segmental pediment distinguishes the roofline on
1326-512: The title Congress Park . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Congress_Park&oldid=393259076 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Canfield Casino and Congress Park Canfield Casino and Congress Park
1365-457: The west, and NY 29 on the east), at the post office and city hall, along with properties half a block deep in either direction. At Grove Street the eastern boundary returns to the side of Broadway in order to exclude some more modern buildings on that side. Two blocks to the north, at Van Dam, routes 9 and 50 split off from Broadway to the northeast and become a divided highway. Here the boundary again takes in buildings around High Rock Spring on
1404-527: The west. The tracks crossed Broadway at the Van Dam junction, following the route now used by routes 9 and 50. This created the break between commercial Broadway and residential North Broadway in the later years of the 19th century. Like the builders of the houses along Union Avenue , the North Broadway homeowners were primarily wealthy summer residents. But Union Avenue's visitors came from all over
1443-542: Was at an early disadvantage since one of the first temperance societies in the country had been established in Saratoga Springs, and not only alcohol but gambling and dancing were at first forbidden in the town. Those bans were gradually relaxed to attract more resort business, and by 1820 were effectively repealed. John Clarke , who had run the first soda fountain in New York City, moved to Saratoga
1482-477: Was recognized as a historic district and listed on the National Register of Historic Places . Since then its boundaries have twice been increased to include some adjacent areas after new information became available about the buildings in them, one of which is a church by Richard Upjohn . Another contributing property , the post office , was later listed on the Register in its own right. The district follows
1521-529: Was well-connected, acquainted with tycoons of the era like Jay Gould , William R. Travers and Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt , who were among his partners in the hotel and racetrack. They gave both a reputation for wealthy and fashionable guests that it continued to enjoy long afterwards. In 1876, Morrissey got Frederick Law Olmsted and Jacob Weidenmann to do some landscaping on the park. After Morrissey's death in 1878, ownership passed to Albert Spencer and Charles Reed. In 1893, Richard Albert Canfield took
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