Saratoga Springs Audio Walking Tour

Highlights

• Skidmore College

  Around 2,700 students study at Skidmore College, a private liberal arts college in Saratoga Springs. Around 2,700 students are enrolled here pursuing a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science in one of more than 60 areas of study.

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  Saratoga Race Course

  Racing has run at Saratoga Race Course on Union Avenue since 1863. Opened in 1863, this track is often considered to be the oldest major sporting venue of any kind in the United States, and yet it is the fourth oldest racetrack overall, after Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans (1838), Freehold Raceway (1854, closed 2024), and Pleasanton Fairgrounds Racetrack (1858).

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  Yaddo

  Yaddo occupies a 400-acre estate in Saratoga Springs, an artists' community built to let people work without interruption. Its stated mission is "to nurture the creative process by providing an opportunity for artists to work without interruption in a supportive environment.

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  National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame

  Founded in 1950, the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame sits on Union Avenue. Founded in 1950 in Saratoga Springs, this museum moved in 1955 to its current location on Union Avenue near Saratoga Race Course, and it was at that time that inductions into the hall of fame began.

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  Canfield Casino and Congress Park

  Canfield Casino and Congress Park cover 17 acres that made Saratoga Springs internationally famous as a health spa and gambling site. Once the location of the Congress Hotel — also called Congress Hall — the Congress Spring Bottling Plant and the Canfield Casino, this place made Saratoga Springs internationally famous as a health spa and gambling site.

All 18 stops

• Saratoga Springs Visitor Center (Broadway)

  Picture a 1915 trolley station at 297 Broadway, known historically as The Drinkhall, here in Saratoga Springs, New York.

• United States Post Office (Broadway Historic District)

  Picture the U.S. Post Office rising in 1910 at 475 Broadway, where it meets Church Street in Saratoga Springs.

• Universal Preservation Hall (Saratoga Springs)

  Universal Preservation Hall seats up to 700 at 25 Washington Street in Saratoga Springs.

• Bethesda Episcopal Church (Broadway Historic District)

  Richard Upjohn drew the English Gothic plans for Bethesda Episcopal Church at 26 Washington Street, Saratoga Springs, New York.

• Broadway Historic District (Broadway Historic District)

  Broadway Historic District stretches a mile through Saratoga Springs, commercial to the south, residential to the north.

• Hiram Charles Todd House (Franklin Square)

  Hiram Charles Todd House, also called the Marvin-Sackett-Todd House, is a Greek Revival home at 4 Franklin Square in Saratoga Springs.

• Gideon Putnam Burying Ground (Broadway and West Side)

  Gideon Putnam Burying Ground fills a quietly irregular 1.1-acre plot on South Franklin Street, just south of Grand Avenue opposite the Oak Street junction.

• Canfield Casino and Congress Park (Congress Park)

  Canfield Casino and Congress Park cover 17 acres that made Saratoga Springs internationally famous as a health spa and gambling site.

• Saratoga Springs History Museum (Saratoga Springs)

  Saratoga Springs History Museum has occupied the Canfield Casino since 1911.

• The Spirit of Life (Congress Park)

  Daniel Chester French's Spirit of Life, a 1914 sculpture, greets visitors in the heart of Congress Park.

• Pure Oil Gas Station (Saratoga Springs)

  Tudor Revival brick and Ludowici tile give the Pure Oil Service Station its look at 65 Spring Street in Saratoga Springs.

• Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery (Saratoga Springs)

  Skidmore College's Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery is as much a teaching tool as a display space in Saratoga Springs.

• Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs)

  Around 2,700 students study at Skidmore College, a private liberal arts college in Saratoga Springs.

• Yaddo (Union Avenue Historic District)

  Yaddo occupies a 400-acre estate in Saratoga Springs, an artists' community built to let people work without interruption.

• National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame (Union Avenue)

  Founded in 1950, the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame sits on Union Avenue.

• Saratoga Race Course (Saratoga Springs)

  Racing has run at Saratoga Race Course on Union Avenue since 1863.

• Greenridge Cemetery (Saratoga Springs)

  Greenridge Cemetery keeps names and dates from two centuries of Saratoga Springs, New York.

• Loughberry Lake (Saratoga Springs)

  Loughberry Lake is the reservoir that sits entirely within the city of Saratoga Springs and supplies its drinking water.

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