The Sagamore

The Sagamore Resort
Lakeside view of the Sagamore Hotel
Nearest cityBolton Landing, New York
Coordinates43°33′21″N 73°38′44″W / 43.555834873606564°N 73.64559615711279°W / 43.555834873606564; -73.64559615711279
Built1882
(144 years ago) (1882)
ArchitectMultiple
Architectural styleColonial Revival, Queen Anne
NRHP reference No.83001824
Added to NRHP21 July 1983
(43 years ago) (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, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

History

Lobby interior.

The Sagamore opened in 1883. It was financed by Myron Brown and five other investors who formed the Green Island Improvement Company, bought Green Island and started building a new hotel in the fall of 1882.

The hotel was named after "the Sagamore", an American Indian character in the James Fenimore Cooper novel The Last of the Mohicans (1826).

Twice damaged by fire, in 1893 and 1914, the Sagamore was rebuilt in the early 1920s. 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.

The hotel eventually fell into disrepair before closing its doors in 1981. Two years later, 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.

See also

References

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  2. ↑ Raymond W. Smith (May 1983). National Register of Historic Places Registration: New York SP Sagamore Hotel Complex. National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved December 2, 2025. (Downloading may be slow.)
  3. ↑ Historic Hotel of America
  4. ↑ "About Us | National Trust for Historic Preservation". savingplaces.org. Retrieved August 24, 2025.
  5. ↑ Reinke, Kira (November 23, 2024). "Enjoy Award-Winning Waterfront Eateries At This Historic Hotel On A Glistening New York Lake". Islands. Retrieved September 30, 2026.
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  8. ↑ Daley, Don (October 25, 2023). "The Haunting History of The Sagamore Resort in Bolton Landing: A Ghost Story from Daleys Adventure Boat Tours". Daleys Adventure Boat Tours. Retrieved September 30, 2026.
  9. ↑ Tolles, Bryant Franklin (2003). Resort Hotels of the Adirondacks: The Architecture of a Summer Paradise, 1850-1950. ISBN 9781584650966.
  10. ↑ Bishop, Liz (September 1, 2022). "CBS 6 Rewind: How the historic Sagamore Resort almost didn't survive the 80's". WRGB. Retrieved October 7, 2026.
  11. ↑ Department of the Interior. National Park Service. (03/02/1934 - ). New York SP Sagamore Hotel Complex. Records of the National Park Service.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  12. ↑ "NPGallery Asset Detail". npgallery.nps.gov. Retrieved October 14, 2026.
  13. ↑ "The Sagamore being sold". Albany Business Review. August 15, 2008.