Saratoga Springs Gideon Putnam

Saratoga Springs, in the Adirondack foothills of upstate New York, is one of the United States' most celebrated nineteenth-century spa towns, its naturally carbonated bicarbonate and sodium mineral springs made famous across the Eastern Seaboard during the Gilded Age when Vanderbilts, Whitneys, and Diamond Jim Brady socialised at the grand hotels surrounding the historic Congress Spring. The Gideon Putnam Hotel at Saratoga Spa State Park continues the elegant balneological tradition of Saratoga's spa culture, offering mineral water baths drawn from the Roosevelt and Lincoln springs within the historic park landscape designed by Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. in the Art Deco tradition of the 1930s. The Saratoga Race Course — America's oldest thoroughbred racetrack hosting the prestigious Travers Stakes — the New York City Ballet's summer residency at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, and the Yaddo artists' retreat make Saratoga Springs one of the most culturally and historically layered spa towns in the entire United States.