[From the Fall 2023 Showcase of Homes Magazine]

Congress Hall

Congress Hall was the second hotel built by Gideon Putnam. This was one of the four largest hotels to ever operate in Saratoga Springs and was located in today’s Congress Park and faced along Broadway between Spring Street and East Congress.

Congress Hall Menu

The large hotels of Saratoga all offered the American plan that provided three meals a day with your stay. This menu shows the volume and variety of foods offered at the Congress Hall.

Monument Square 1907

The area of Broadway near the entrance to Congress Park was called Monument Square because the statue honoring the 77th NYS Regiment was there until almost 1920. A car accident at the base of the monument forced city officials to move the statue into Congress Park where it is today