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Pondering at Victorian Beauty in Saratoga Springs, NY

Pondering at Victorian Beauty in Saratoga Springs, NY

Saratoga Springs, NY was once the epicenter for vacationers from New York City taking long baths and strolls away from the noise of the city. Just look at this article from July 1899 issue of The New York Times describing Saratoga as “one of the leading fashionable suburbs of Greater New York”. Today the prestige of Saratoga has shifted away from a gambling and leisure capital for millionaires, but the sophisticated grandeur is still present everywhere you turn. I drove up to capture the city’s beautiful details and meet some of its passionate residents who are restoring and redefining Saratoga Springs today.

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The city is ready for visitors with clear and minimal signage
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One of the most common themes in the city’s urban details is horses — an homage to the city’s rich horse-racing history and the nation’s oldest horse race track
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Even the fence at local Starbucks follows suit
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Bike parking, but with a horse head
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A unique setup around most trees on Broadway
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An enamel house number
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One of my favorite buildings in the city, on Broadway, built in 1871
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Menges & Curtis, a recently restored apothecary dating back to 1800s
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The interior at Menges & Curtis features original medicine cabinets
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The new owners of the apothecary just started digging through the basement and finding unique artifacts — like jars and mixers
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Tile flooring at Menges & Curtis
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Northshire Bookstore, a recent addition to the city’s cultural landscape gives an extensive and curious selection of new book titles
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Magazine rack at Northshire Bookstore highlights a handful of literary publications
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Inside Uncommon Grounds, a local coffee shop and a place of gathering
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I ordered oat bagel with lox — delish



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Lyrical Ballad is one of the most unique vintage bookstores I’ve ever been to — hosted inside a building once used as a bank, it spans little rooms and corridors until you get completely lost among some 100,000 rare and first edition book titles
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A corridor at Lyrical Ballad leading to the original cault door of the bank



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An original page from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, a publication based in Saratoga Springs from 1855 to 1922 and published by local resident Frank Leslie. Throughout its decades of existence, the weekly provided illustrations and reports—first with wood engravings and Daguerreotypes, later with more advanced forms of photography—of wars from John Brown’s raid at Harpers Ferry and the Civil War until the Spanish–American War and the First World War.
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A few of the many hundreds of unique bookends collected at Lyrical Ballad
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One of the most exciting renovations in the city is the Adelphi Hotel, originally built in 1877 and reopened in 2018 after an extensive makeover



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